Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	great_a	2,904	5	3.2705	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37335	An antidote against the infection of the Jacobites, occasioned by last papers of Sir John Friend, Sir William Parkins, Mr. Cranburne &c. who pretend to die in the communion of the Church of England. By a minister fo the Church of England.		1696 (1696)	Wing D56; ESTC R216707	7,730	7

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