Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ceremony_n	church_n	rite_n	3,560	5	9.9325	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77864	To the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses of the Commons-House of Parliament the humble petition of sundry ministers intrusted to solicite the petition and remonstrance formerly exhibited to this Honourable House, and of many of their brethren, most humbly sheweth, ...	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5686A; Thomason 669.f.4[37]; ESTC R13458	3,166	1

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