Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	time_n	4,864	5	3.7091	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08387	The arraignment and tryal of the coach-man and foot-boy, on Friday last the 13th. of this present December, 1661. at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, who murthered their royal master the Prince of Transilvania, as he was asleep in his coach near Rochester. Being a perfect and full account of their peaching each other at their examinations before the Lord Mayor, Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the honourable court. The manner how they were brought in guilty by the jury; with an order thereupon for their being conveyed to Maid-stone in Kent, and the desires of John Jacob to the court thereupon. Together with the trial and condemnation of the 2 souldiers that killed Mr. Grouster the brickler in turn-againlane : the manner of their first quarreling, how they slew him there flight thereupon; and the taking of them afterwards and committing them to Newgate, who on Saturday last vvere both condemned to be hanged for the said murther.		1661 (1661)	Wing A3747A; ESTC R172509	3,495	10

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