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	king_n	lord_n	5,663	4	3.5808	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91297	The third part of a seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws, government of all English freemen; with a chronological collection of their strenuous defenses, by wars, and otherwise: of all great Parliamentary Councills, synods, and chief laws, charters, proceedings in them; of the publike revolutions of state, with the sins and vices occasioning them; and the exemplary judgements of God upon tyrants, oppressors, perjured perfidious traitors, rebels, regicides, usurpers, during the reigns o [sic] four Saxon and Danish Kings, from the year of our Lord 600. till the coronation of William the Norman, anno 1066. Collected out of our antientest, and best historians, with brief usefull observations on and from them. / By William Prynne esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 3	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4102; Thomason E905_1; ESTC R207432	279,958	400

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redimere_fw-la quam_fw-la ab_fw-la inuicto_fw-la animo_fw-la nulla_fw-la violentia_fw-la poseit_n excutere_fw-la et_fw-la tunc_fw-la quidem_fw-la palisper_n ab_fw-la incur●bus_fw-la cessarunt_fw-la mox_fw-la ubi_fw-la vires_fw-la otio_fw-la resumpserunt_fw-la ad_fw-la superiora_fw-la re●itum_fw-la tantus_fw-la timor_fw-la anglos_n invaserat_fw-la ut_fw-la nihil_fw-la de_fw-la resistendo_fw-la cogitarent_fw-la si_fw-mi qui_fw-la antiquae_fw-la glorlae_fw-la memores_fw-la obviare_fw-la &_o signa_fw-la colligere_fw-la tentassent_fw-la hostium_fw-la multitudine_fw-la &_o sociorum_fw-la defectione_n destitute_a bantur_fw-la whereby_o they_o become_v vassal_n and_o tributary_n to_o the_o insult_a dane_n cujus_fw-la siricii_n consilio_fw-la in_o gestis_fw-la regum_fw-la 203._o dixi_fw-la ethelredum_fw-la regem_fw-la animi_fw-la libertatem_fw-la danis_n pretio_fw-la vendicasse_fw-la ut_fw-la eorum_fw-la pacem_fw-la argento_fw-la redimerent_fw-la quod_fw-la ferro_fw-la repellere_fw-la posset_n nisi_fw-la cord_n car●ret_fw-la unde_fw-la importabilis_fw-la tributi_fw-la pensio_fw-la imposita_fw-la angliae_fw-la fortunas_fw-la provincialium_fw-la ad_fw-la solum_fw-la usque_fw-la destruxit_fw-la 357._o henry_n huntindon_n and_o the_o 879._o chronicle_n of_o bromton_n pass_v this_o verdict_n against_o and_o deduce_v this_o memorable_a observation_n from_o this_o tribute_n edelredi_fw-la regis_fw-la anno_fw-la 13._o primo_fw-la statuerunt_fw-la angli_fw-la which_o intimate_v it_o to_o be_v decree_v in_o a_o parliamentary_a council_n concilio_n 9_o infausto_fw-la siricii_n archiepiscopi_fw-la quod_fw-la ipsi_fw-la censum_fw-la dacis_fw-la persolverent_fw-la quatenus_fw-la à_fw-la rapinis_fw-la &_o caede_fw-la ce●●arent_fw-la &_o dederunt_fw-la eye_v decem_fw-la mille_fw-la libras_fw-la hoc_fw-la autem_fw-la malum_fw-la usque_fw-la in_o hodiernum_fw-la diem_fw-la duravit_fw-la et_fw-la diu_fw-la nisi_fw-la dei_fw-la pietas_n subveniat_fw-la durabit_fw-la regibus_fw-la namque_fw-la nostris_fw-la modo_fw-la persolvimus_fw-la ex_fw-la consuetudine_fw-la quod_fw-la dacis_fw-la persolvebatnr_fw-la ex_fw-la ineffabili_fw-la terror_fw-la to_o which_o bromton_n 13._o ranulphus_fw-la censtrensis_fw-la and_o 2._o henry_n de_fw-fr knyghton_n immediate_o subjoin_v dacis_fw-la tributum_fw-la annuum_fw-la solvunt_fw-la primo_fw-la anno_fw-la 10_o milia_fw-la librarum_fw-la secundo_fw-la anno_fw-la 16_o millia_fw-la librarum_fw-la tertio_fw-la anno_fw-la 20_o millia_fw-la librarum_fw-la quarto_fw-la anno_fw-la 24_o millia_fw-la quinto_fw-la anno_fw-la 40._o millia_fw-la librarum_fw-la donee_n tandem_fw-la pecunia_fw-la deficiente_fw-la iterum_fw-la tenderent_fw-la ad_fw-la rapinas_fw-la et_fw-la tunc_fw-la northimb●ia_fw-la 〈◊〉_d de●●aedantes_n et_fw-la londoniam_fw-la obsidente●_n coegerunt_fw-la regem_fw-la tributum_fw-la dare_v 64._o mat._n parker_n archbishop_n of_o canterbury_n thus_o censure_v this_o ill_a advice_n of_o his_o predecessor_n siricius_n pacem_fw-la christianis_fw-la ab_fw-la infidelibus_fw-la dacis_fw-la 10._o librarum_fw-la millibus_fw-la redemit_fw-la ad_fw-la ignominiam_fw-la sane_fw-la peneque_fw-la pernicient_a totius_fw-la regni_fw-la 207._o mr._n john_n fox_n inform_v we_o

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