Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	book_n	church_n	religion_n	2,750	5	5.6458	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25673	The Anti-weesils, a poem giving an account of some historical and argu-mental passages happening in the Lyon's Court.		1691 (1691)	Wing A3516; ESTC R10067	13,470	32

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