Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	crown_n	duke_n	king_n	7,040	5	3.9405	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87106	Englands proper and onely way to an establishment in honour, freedome, peace and happinesse. Or, The Normane yoke once more uncased, and the necessity, justice, and present seasonablenesse of breaking it in pieces demonstrated, in eight most plain and true propositions with their proofs. / By the author of Anti-Normanisme, and of the Plain English to the neglectors of it.	Hare, John, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing H762; Thomason E423_18; ESTC R202591	6,412	16

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