Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	certain_a	king_n	year_n	3,227	5	4.7551	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69205	A true coppie of a discourse written by a gentleman, employed in the late voyage of Spaine and Portingale sent to his particular friend, and by him published, for the better satisfaction of all such, as hauing been seduced by particular report, haue entred into conceipts tending to the discredit of the enterprise, and actors of the same.	Wingfield, Anthony, Captain.	1589 (1589)	STC 6790; ESTC S109628	42,462	64

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