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	use_v	2,725	5	6.0891	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77626	The organs funerall or the quiristers lamentation for the abolishment of superstition and superstitious ceremonies. In a dialogicall discourse between a quirister and an organist, An. Dom. 1642.	Brookbank, Joseph, b. 1612.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4975A; Thomason E141_6; ESTC R21845	2,278	9

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