Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	great_a	king_n	3,209	5	3.5341	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26123	An account of the treaty between His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of New-York, &c. and the Indians of the Five Nations viz. the Mohaques, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cajonges and Sennekes, at Albany, beginning the 15th of August 1694.; Treaties, etc. Iroquois Indians, 1694 Aug. 15	New York (State).	1694 (1694)	Wing A411; ESTC W16312	16,145	42

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