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	parliament_n	3,586	5	6.2777	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39784	Overtures offered to the Parliament in which this proposition is advanced that a small summ imposed on the nation, for reforming our standard, and for repairing the losses of the African and Indian Company, &c. bestowed in the method propos'd, will be of ten times more value to the nation in general, &c. to almost the whole individual persons in the kingdom, than the samen [sic] summ will be, if retained in each particulars hand.	Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing F1296; ESTC R215771	6,154	14

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