Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	10,409	5	4.7494	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58240	Reasons for passing a bill in Parliament to erect three Courts of Conscience, in the three several divisions hereafter named, being within the Bills of Mortality, and without the city of London, and the liberties thereof, for relief of poor debtors and creditors, under the value of forty shillings, to prevent vexations and chargeable arrests and suits at law		1680 (1680)	Wing R497A; ESTC R6009	970	1

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