Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	civil_a	law_n	1,412	5	4.9298	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54695	Tenenda non tollenda, or, The necessity of preserving tenures in capite and by knight-service which according to their first institution were, and are yet, a great part of the salus populi, and the safety and defence of the King, as well as of his people : together with a prospect of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences, which by the taking away or altering of those tenures, will inevitably happen to the King and his kingdomes / by Fabian Philipps ...	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2019; ESTC R16070	141,615	292

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