Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	john_n	lord_n	sir_n	16,484	5	6.9561	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72778	I.I. By the Major Whereas diuers good acts and ordinances haue heeretofore bene made, aswell by publique proclamations, as other waies: for the restraning the great abuses daily committed and vsed in brewing and vttering of extraordinary strong ale and beere, of fifteene shillings and sixteene shillings the barrell, in such vnvsuall and strange manner, ... as is fit to be reformed: ... which in no wise is to bee suffered.	Corporation of London (England); Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight.	1615 (1615)	STC 16725.7; ESTC S124567	1,986	1

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