Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	according_a	aforesaid_a	answer_n	22	3	5.9724	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47049	The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbvry plain restored by Inigo Jones ...	Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.; Webb, John, 1611-1672.	1655 (1655)	Wing J954; ESTC R13850	63,898	123

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