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	lord_n	see_v	5,118	5	3.3465	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81364	The designs and correspondencies of the present Committee of Estates and the part of the Scotish nation which is now entred into this kingdom in hostility, in some measure discovered by two packets of letters intercepted in the North, and sent up to the House of Commons. With an introductive and some marginal notes and animadversions, by a private pen. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters by forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D Com.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1648 (1648)	Wing D1176; Thomason E459_5; ESTC R205079	16,674	21

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