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	richard_n	thomas_n	15,103	5	8.7231	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94415	To his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell and the Covncel of state the humble remonstrance of divers well-affected inhabitants of the town of Colchester in Essex.	Farley, John, fl. 1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1355; Thomason 669.f.17[11]; ESTC R211389	2,190	1

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