Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	colonel_n	foot_n	regiment_n	1,104	5	9.7797	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80073	The answere and vindication of Sir William Cole Knight and Colonell (presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and others the Committee of both Kingdomes, and by them sent to be reported to the Honourable the Commons house of Parliament of England at Westminster) unto a charge given in by Sir Frederick Hamilton Knight, to the said committee, against the said Sir Will: Cole. Wherein also will appeare, how frivolous, the aspersions are, which were endeavoured to be cast upon the said Sir William, and his regiment, in a pamphlet set forth in anno Dom. 1643. Declaring the services of the said Sir Frederick. Which chiefly occasioned this answer from the presse.	Cole, William, Sir, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing C5033; Thomason E274_30; ESTC R209885	19,773	17

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