Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	ireland_n	king_n	10,468	5	4.3478	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00758	A supplication of the poore commons Whereunto is added the supplication of beggers.	Fish, Simon, d. 1531. Supplicacyon for the beggers. aut; Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546, attributed name.; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588, attributed name.	1546 (1546)	STC 10884; ESTC S102081	30,801	66

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