Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	aforesaid_a	lord_n	say_a	4,576	5	7.0353	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67593	Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject.	Ware, Robert, d. 1696.; Browne, George, d. 1556.	1681 (1681)	Wing W848; ESTC R12362	15,456	22

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