Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	bishop_n	james_n	king_n	2,763	5	3.8192	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49257	The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

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