Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	age_n	king_n	year_n	5,348	5	5.1448	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58386	Reflections upon the new test, and the reply thereto with a letter of Sir Francis Walsingham's, concerning the penal laws made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.	Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590. Letter to Monsieur Critoy.	1687 (1687)	Wing R732; ESTC R6019	12,159	24

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