Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	scotland_n	2,962	5	8.7134	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09859	The flowers of the liues of the most renowned saincts of the three kingdoms England Scotland, and Ireland written and collected out of the best authours and manuscripts of our nation, and distributed according to their feasts in the calendar. By the R. Father, Hierome Porter priest and monke of the holy order of Sainct Benedict, of the congregation of England. The first tome.	Porter, Jerome, d. 1632.; Rucholle, Peeter, 1618-1647, engraver.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 20124; ESTC S114966	523,559	659

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rest_v thy_o friend_n and_o well-willer_n p._n h._n p._n approbatio_fw-la nos_fw-la frater_fw-la sigebertus_n bagshaw_n congregationis_fw-la anglicanae_n ordinis_fw-la sancti_fw-la benedicti_fw-la praeses_fw-la generalis_fw-la facultatem_fw-la concedimus_fw-la ut_fw-la libre_fw-la de_fw-la vitis_fw-la sanctorum_fw-la angliae_fw-la scotiae_fw-la &_o hiberniae_fw-la in_fw-la dvos_fw-la tomos_n distributus_fw-la &_o à_fw-la reverendo_fw-la patre_fw-la hieronymo_n portero_fw-la congregationis_fw-la nostrae_fw-la monacho_n &_o presbytero_fw-la collectus_fw-la &_o conscriptus_fw-la quem_fw-la etiam_fw-la ab_fw-la aliquibus_fw-la paribus_fw-la nostris_fw-la theologis_fw-la in_fw-la quibus_fw-la meritò_fw-la confidimus_fw-la perlectum_fw-la &_o approbatum_fw-la novimus_fw-la prelo_fw-la committatur_fw-la modo_fw-la licentia_fw-la etiam_fw-la ordinarij_fw-la accedat_fw-la datum_n in_o collegio_fw-la nostro_fw-la sancti_fw-la gregorij_fw-la duaci_fw-la die_v 18._o maij_fw-la anno_fw-la 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