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
A92203	The complaint of many free-holders, farmer, and others, of the Common-wealth of England Against the unlawfull planting of English tobacco. With an act of Parliament prohibiting the same.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing R439; Thomason 669.f.17[42]; ESTC R211674	1,944	1

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