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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	king_n	prince_n	wales_n	1,695	5	10.2473	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91297	The third part of a seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws, government of all English freemen; with a chronological collection of their strenuous defenses, by wars, and otherwise: of all great Parliamentary Councills, synods, and chief laws, charters, proceedings in them; of the publike revolutions of state, with the sins and vices occasioning them; and the exemplary judgements of God upon tyrants, oppressors, perjured perfidious traitors, rebels, regicides, usurpers, during the reigns o [sic] four Saxon and Danish Kings, from the year of our Lord 600. till the coronation of William the Norman, anno 1066. Collected out of our antientest, and best historians, with brief usefull observations on and from them. / By William Prynne esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 3	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4102; Thomason E905_1; ESTC R207432	279,958	400

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omne_fw-la quae_fw-la nobis_fw-la praecipere_fw-la velis_fw-la quae_fw-la unquam_fw-la aliquatenus_fw-la implere_fw-la valeamus_fw-la after_o this_o there_o be_v another_o kind_n of_o parliamentary_a council_n hold_v at_o london_n &_o not_o long_o after_o that_o another_o at_o thithamberig_n wherein_o many_o consultation_n be_v have_v &_o proposition_n make_v for_o suppression_n &_o punishment_n of_o thief_n and_o keep_n of_o the_o peace_n which_o the_o justice_n commissioner_n and_o other_o appoint_v to_o keep_v the_o peace_n and_o to_o take_v surety_n of_o all_o man_n to_o the_o keep_n thereof_o conclude_v upon_o at_o london_n and_o after_o submit_v to_o the_o king_n council_n to_o enlarge_v or_o alter_v as_o he_o shall_v see_v cause_n who_o thereupon_o make_v some_o alteration_n and_o mitigation_n at_o thithamberig_n of_o what_o the_o king_n think_v over-severe_a in_o put_v to_o death_n those_o who_o be_v above_o 12_o year_n of_o age_n for_o 12d_o value_n as_o these_o passage_n attest_v declare_v the_o proceed_n of_o that_o parliamentary_a council_n h_z hoc_fw-la consultum_fw-la est_fw-la quod_fw-la episcopi_fw-la et_fw-la praepositi_fw-la qui_fw-la 856._o londoniensi_fw-la curiae_fw-la pertinent_a edixerunt_fw-la &_o jurejurando_fw-la confirmavernnt_n in_fw-la svo_fw-la fridgildo_n comites_fw-la &_o villani_fw-la in_o adjectione_n judiciorum_fw-la quae_fw-la apud_fw-la grateleyam_n &_o exoniam_fw-la instituta_fw-la sunt_fw-la &_o iterum_fw-la apud_fw-la thundresfeldam_n cap._n 1._o et_fw-la est_fw-la imprimis_fw-la haec_fw-la non_fw-la parcatur_fw-la alicui_fw-la latroni_fw-la supra_fw-la 12_o annos_fw-la et_fw-la supra_fw-la 12_o d._n de_fw-fr quo_fw-la verè_fw-la fuerit_fw-la inquisitum_fw-la quod_fw-la reus_fw-la sit_fw-la quin_fw-la occidatnr_fw-la &_o capiatur_fw-la omne_fw-la quod_fw-la habet_fw-la etc._n etc._n cap_n 14._o nec_fw-la tacendum_fw-la est_fw-la vel_fw-la praerereundum_fw-la si_fw-la dominus_fw-la noster_fw-la vel_fw-la praepositorum_fw-la nostrorum_fw-la aliquis_fw-la ullum_fw-la augmentum_fw-la excogitare_fw-la possit_fw-la ad_fw-la nostrum_fw-la fridgildum_fw-la ut_fw-la hoc_fw-la gratanter_fw-la excipiamus_fw-la sicut_fw-la nobis_fw-la omnibus_fw-la convenit_fw-la &_o nostrum_fw-la necesse_fw-la sit_fw-la &_o in_o deo_fw-la confidimus_fw-la et_fw-la regni_fw-la nostri_fw-la domino_fw-la cap._n 15._o si_fw-mi totum_fw-la hoc_fw-la ita_fw-la complere_fw-la volumus_fw-la res_fw-la totius_fw-la populi_fw-la meliorabitur_fw-la contra_fw-la fures_fw-la quam_fw-la antea_fw-la fuit_fw-la &_o si_fw-la remissius_fw-la egerimus_fw-la de_fw-la pace_fw-la &_o vadiis_fw-la quae_fw-la simul_fw-la dedimus_fw-la &_o quam_fw-la rex_fw-la nobis_fw-la praecipit_fw-la timere_fw-la possumus_fw-la vel_fw-la magis_fw-la scire_fw-la quod_fw-la fures_fw-la isti_fw-la regnabunt_fw-la plus_fw-la quam_fw-la antè_fw-la fec_fw-la erunt_fw-la si_fw-la fidem_fw-la teneamus_fw-la et_fw-la pacem_fw-la sicut_fw-la domino_fw-la nostro_fw-la placeat_fw-la quia_fw-la magnum_fw-la opus_fw-la est_fw-la ut_fw-la insistamus_fw-la et_fw-la peragamn_v quod_fw-la ipse_fw-la velit_fw-la et_fw-la si_fw-la amplius_fw-la praecipiat_fw-la cum_fw-la omni_fw-la jocunditate_fw-la et_fw-la de_fw-la votione_fw-la parati_fw-la sumus_fw-la cap._n 17._o item_n quod_fw-la sapientes_fw-la omnes_fw-la dederunt_fw-la vadium_fw-la suum_fw-la insimul_fw-la archiepiscopo_fw-la apud_fw-la thundresfeldam_n quando_fw-la ealpheagus_fw-la scyb_n et_fw-fr

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