Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	bishop_n	church_n	2,934	5	4.3576	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67580	Some queries to the Protestants concerning the English Reformation, by J.W. Gent. Published with allowance; Considerations which obliged Peter Manby Dean of Derry to embrace the Catholique religion. Selections.	Manby, Peter, d. 1697.; Ward, Thomas, 1652-1708.	1687 (1687)	Wing W836A; ESTC R219537	3,936	11

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