Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	captain_n	colonel_n	major_n	1,323	5	13.3663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85379	Tvvo letters of great consequence to the House of Commons: the one from Alisbury in Buckinghamshire, dated March 22. 1642. and signed by Col: Arthur Goodwyn: Col: Bulstrode: Col: Hampden: Tho: Terrill: Esq; the other from Sir William Brereton to a member of the House of Commons, of a great victory he obtained the 15. of March, at a town called Middlewich in Cheshire; and took prisoners, Col: Ellis, Sergeant Major Gilner, Sir Edward Moseley, with ten captains, divers officers, and five hundred others, with great store of ammunition and ordnance. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cl. Parl. D. Com.	Goodwin, Arthur, 1593 or 4-1643.; Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing G1144B; Thomason E94_2; ESTC R1679	2,997	9

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