Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	england_n	great_a	king_n	4,163	5	3.7802	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77282	A plea for the peoples good old cause: Or, The fundamental lawes and liberties of England asserted, proved, and acknowledged, to be our right before the Conquest, and by above 30 Parliaments, and by the late King Charls; and by the Parliament and their army in their severall declarations in their particular streights and differences. By way of answer to Mr. James Harrington his cxx. political aphorismes, in his second edition. By Capt. William Bray.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4307; Thomason 763[7]; ESTC R207096	15,797	16

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