Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	authority_n	king_n	power_n	5,428	5	4.9053	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44073	A scripture-catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours, some of them of the present times / by Thomas Hodges.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing H2322; ESTC R24150	115,858	351

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