Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	great_a	time_n	6,316	5	3.5122	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79944	The Clergyes bill of complaint, or, Submissive suite of one in the behalf of all the orthodox and great sorrow-suffering church-men throughout England. Exhibited to the most honourable houses of Parliament, against Brownists, Anabaptists and other schismaticks, shewing amongst other things, how the materiall churches on earth and our reverend divines are made despicable through their misdemeanors. Besides necessary annotations in the end, whereunto the reader is respectively referred by certain alphabeticall letters, from A to T included in severall lines to this work.		1643 (1643)	Wing C4644; Thomason E84_44; ESTC R11008	6,440	15

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