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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	great_a	king_n	place_n	6,290	5	4.1284	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61451	An apology for the ancient right and power of the bishops to sit and vote in parliaments ... with an answer to the reasons maintained by Dr. Burgesse and many others against the votes of bishops : a determination at Cambridge of the learned and reverend Dr. Davenant, B. of Salisbury, Englished : the speech in Parliament made by Dr. Williams, L. Archbishop of York, in defence of the bishops : two speeches spoken in the House of Lords by the Lord Viscount Newarke, 1641.	Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.; Davenant, John, ca. 1572-1641.; Williams, John, 1582-1650.; Newark, David Leslie, Baron, d. 1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5446; ESTC R18087	87,157	146

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pag._n 82._o episcopi_fw-la autem_fw-la barones_n dici_fw-la videantur_fw-la propter_fw-la nominis_fw-la dignitatem_fw-la non_fw-la quod_fw-la vassallagium_fw-la pendebant_fw-la aut_fw-la seculare_fw-la servitium_fw-la hoc_fw-la enim_fw-la nostratibus_fw-la jugum_fw-la injecit_fw-la omnium_fw-la primus_fw-la willielmus_fw-la senior_fw-la anno_fw-la 1070_o ut_fw-la in_o eodem_fw-la tradit_fw-la matth_n paris_n auxit_fw-la magnopere_fw-la willielmus_fw-la junior_a ut_fw-la in_o historiola_n ducum_fw-la normaniae_fw-la &_o in_o lib._n edwardi_fw-la confess_v c._n 11._o sed_fw-la post_fw-la varias_fw-la colluctationes_fw-la aeterno_fw-la robore_fw-la domum_fw-la confirmavit_fw-la hen._n 2._o anno_fw-la dom._n 1164._o in_o magno_fw-la concilio_n clarendoniae_n habito_fw-la praesidente_fw-la eidem_fw-la ex_fw-la ipsius_fw-la mandato_fw-la sacellano_fw-la svo_fw-la johanne_n de_fw-fr oxonia_n praesentibusque_fw-la archiepiscopis_fw-la episcopis_fw-la abbatibus_fw-la prioribus_fw-la 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