Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	honourable_a	sir_n	thomas_n	6,094	4	9.1410	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95457	Tvvo petitions of divers free-men of England, inhabitants in the city of Bristoll, and in the adjacent parts. The one presented to the Honourable House of Commons, upon the 2. of September, 1647. Together with their answer thereunto. The other to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, at his head-quarters at Kingston. Both signed with many thousand hands.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1647 (1647)	Wing T3500; Thomason E405_23; ESTC R201895	8,089	16

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