Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	nottingham_n	3,121	5	13.6957	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03221	A elegy on the death of the right honourable Heneage Lord Finch, Baron of Daventry, High Chancellour of England, Earl of Nottingham; and one of the lords of the most honourable privy-council; who departed this life, Decemb. 18. 1682.		1682 (1682)	Wing E403; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[49]	1,134	1

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