Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	spiritual_a	temporal_a	2,677	5	8.2384	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80659	A treatise against recusants, in defence of the oath of alegeance. With executions of consideration, for repressing the encrease of Papists. / By Sir Robert Cotton, knight.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6502; Thomason E205_1; ESTC R212611	26,099	47

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