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	church_n	religion_n	3,261	5	5.9527	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09994	A second letter to Hilton, the grand informer against religious meetings wherein his threatnings against constables are demonstrated to be vain : and the whole duty of those officers, in reference to that business, stated.	Philoeusebias Misonebulonides.	1682 (1682)	Wing S2288; Wing S2288; ESTC R215545	4,230	2

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