Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	according_a	bishop_n	word_n	2,848	5	3.7038	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94825	The fair dealer: or, A modest ansvver to the sober letter of His Excellency, the Lord General Monck; being a brief discovery of the meetest expedient, and most sovereign remedy for our present distempers. By the private hand of a gent. of Devon.	Trev., J.	1660 (1660)	Wing T2128; Thomason E1015_11; ESTC R203826	4,403	8

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