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	sir_n	thomas_n	57,736	5	10.2379	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42996	Terrible and trve nevves from Beverley and the city of Yorke wherein is a true relation of the besieging of the town of Hull, by the Kings Majesty with six thousand horse and foote, on Thursday, Iuly 7, 1642 : also of Sir John Hothams drowning the country within foure miles of Hull, and what hath happened since, and His Maiesties resolution concerning it : with the Lord Digbies entertainment at the court, and divers remarkable passages Yorke, from the third of Iuly to the ninth of the same, sent in a letter from Yorke to a friend in London, Iuly the twelfth, 1642.	P. H.	1642 (1642)	Wing H104; ESTC R19712	2,435	8

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