Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	able_a	absolute_a	parliament_n	20	3	5.9174	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83984	Englands petition to King Charles. Or, An humble petition of the distressed and almost destroyed subjects of England, to the Kings most excellent Majestie, now at the Isle of Wight, that ye would yeeld to His Parliament in all their reasonable demands in the treatie there. Containing the very sense of all the loyall-hearted true lovers of the King.; Englands petition to their King.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3012; Thomason E462_21; ESTC R205074	5,054	8

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