Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	king_n	people_n	5,295	4	4.4420	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36798	Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales with divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England / collected, and published in Latin, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight ..., in three volums; and now epitomized in English, page by page; with sculptures of the several religious habits.; Monasticon anglicanum. English	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.; Dodsworth, Roger, 1585-1654.; Stevens, John, d. 1726. History of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches.; Wright, James, 1643-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2487; ESTC R8166	281,385	375

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west-grenewiche_a etc._n etc._n a_o sine_fw-la be_v past_o 19_o h._n 3._o between_o robert_n de_fw-fr stanford_n master_n of_o the_o warfare_n of_o the_o temple_n in_o england_n plaintiff_n and_o john_n de_fw-fr curtenay_n and_o emme_n his_o wife_n deforciant_n inpedientes_fw-la of_o certain_a land_n in_o east-hyrst_a king_n john_n confirm_v to_o the_o knight_n templar_n the_o island_n of_o lundy_n lie_v in_o the_o mouth_n of_o the_o severn_n first_o grant_v by_o his_o father_n king_n henry_n the_o ii_o in_o short_a the_o foresay_a king_n henry_n the_o iii_o grant_v and_o confirm_v to_o the_o templar_n in_o the_o eleven_o year_n of_o his_o reign_n all_o royal_a liberty_n in_o all_o their_o land_n exempt_n they_o and_o their_o man_n from_o toll_n tax_n etc._n etc._n with_o all_o the_o immunity_n that_o the_o royal_a power_n can_v grant_v cum_fw-la omnibus_fw-la libertatibus_fw-la &_o liberis_fw-la consuetudinibus_fw-la quas_fw-la regius_fw-la potestas_fw-la liberiores_fw-la alicui_fw-la 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