Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	21,498	5	5.0090	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02217	The case of our English wool, and the manufacture thereof truly stated. Together with some of the causes of the low price of the one, and decaying condition of the other. As also the presentment of the grand jury of the county of Sommerset thereon. / Humbly offered to the High Court of Parliament.	Clarke, George, fl. 1677-1685.; Clarke, George, fl. 1677-1685. Treatise of wool and cattel.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somerset). Presentment of the grand jury. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing C4444A; ESTC R233248	2,702	22

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