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	ireland_n	law_n	3,028	5	5.2143	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35181	A discourse concerning the trade of Ireland and Scotland, as they stand in competition with the trade of England being taken out of an essay on trade / written by Mr. John Cary, merchant in Bristol, and printed at Bristol, anno 1695.	Cary, John, d. 1720?; Cary, John, d. 1720? Essay on the state of England in relation to its trade.	1695 (1695)	Wing C727; ESTC R20493	10,257	16

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