Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	treaty_n	2,930	5	9.8412	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06043	The declaration of Charles Duke of Sconberg, Lieutenant-General to His Majesty of Great Britain, and colonel of his First Regiment of English Guards, to the inhabitants of Dauphine	Schomberg, Charles Schomberg, Duke of, 1645-1693.	1692 (1692)	Wing S868B; ESTC R183266	1,522	1

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