Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	day_n	great_a	king_n	9,441	5	3.5510	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88933	The copy of a letter written from Dermond MacConnor, one of the chiefetaines of the Irish rebels, unto the King of Spaine, for aide and assistance against the English, and Protestants, being brought by an English marchant from Madrid and translated out of the Spanish originall. Also, a copy of another letter written from Lisbon in Portugall, concerning the execution of 4. noblemen, 4. gentlemen, and 3. bishops, and one of the inquisition. All traytors against the King of Portugall, Iohn the fourth. And to make up the 13th. the Bishop of Lamego, who had lately crown'd the King, yet since found guilty, with others, in a great treason and cruell massacre plotted, intending to kill the King of Portugall, his Queene, his sonne, and two daughters, and to burne the pallace, and citie, all in one day.	MacConnor, Dermond, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing M117; Thomason E132_3; ESTC R19071	3,873	10

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