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	person_n	2,205	5	5.3328	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25575	An answer to the Bishop of Rochester's first letter to the Earl of Dorset, &c. concerning the late ecclesiastical commission by an Englishman.	Englishman.; Charlton, Mr.; Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. Letter from the Bishop of Rochester to ... the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex.	1689 (1689)	Wing A3388; ESTC R15480	10,664	36

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