Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	citizen_n	london_n	mayor_n	9,097	5	11.2140	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58915	A seasonable caution to all loyal subjects, against antimonarchical principles in an answer to a pretended petition of the Common Hall, in London, assembled on Midsummer Day last, to the Honourable House of Commons : which is designed for a vindication of the Common Hall, as innocent of the affront and indignity thereby offered, by some ill-minded persons in their name, to the supreme authority.		1690 (1690)	Wing S2218; ESTC R13157	5,776	4

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