Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	lord_n	6,936	5	3.8165	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70110	A most true and exact relation of both the battels fought by His Excellency and his forces against the bloudy cavelliers the one on the 23 of October last, neer Keynton below Edge-Hill in Warwickshire, the other at Worcester by Colonell Brown, Captain Nathaniel and John Fiennes and Colonell Sands and some others : wherein the particulars of each battle is punctually set down at large for the full satisfaction of all people, with the names of the commanders and regiments that valiently stood it out: also the number and names of the chief commanders that were slain on both sides : all which is here faithully set down without favour or partiality to either army / written by a worthy Captain Master Nathaniel Fiennes ...	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing F875; ESTC R17004	7,077	10

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