Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	esquire_n	john_n	thomas_n	20,115	5	10.2328	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22610	Charles by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., to all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deanes, and their officials ... to whome these presents shall come, greeting whereas we are credibly giuen to vnderstand, that by reason of grieuous visitation in this time of the great contagion of the plague amongst our poore subiects ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1636 (1636)	STC 9074; ESTC S3768	2,198	1

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