Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	law_n	parliament_n	2,185	5	6.6353	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79712	The copie of a letter sent from the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland, to the severall Presbyteries and provinciall assemblies in Scotland: giving them warning of the dangerous designes of evill affected men, against the church and cause of God.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4202D; Thomason E441_23; ESTC R204905	2,379	7

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