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	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	2,997	5	4.1467	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76808	Sir Richard Blake his speech in the House of Commons at a grand committee for the bill against paper petitions. Master Brereton sitting in the chaire Iune XXVIII. 1641.; Speech in the House of Commons at a grand committee for the bill against paper petitions	Blake, Richard, Sir, d. 1663.	1641 (1641)	Wing B3137; Thomason E198_25; ESTC R11468	5,924	16

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