Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	alderman_n	john_n	sir_n	10,947	5	7.3657	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64419	Terrible nevves from York declaring the barbarous actions of the cavaliers at Yorke in plundering the houses, seizing the goods and imprisoning the persons of those citizens that refuse to contribute money to maintaine a war against the Parliament : having already plundered above twenty citizens houses and imprisoned diverse of the aldermen for not contributing money to maintain the foresaid war : also how they cruelly threaten to kill diverse godly and religious ministers in the said city if they will not preach as they would have them : also the Earle of Essex his instructions to the counties of Derby, Northampton, Warwick, and diverse other counties, to stand upon their guard and raise the power of the counties to withstand the cavaliers and prevent the like miseries and calamities in other parts of this Kingdome.	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing T773; ESTC R15172	2,037	8

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