Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	high_a	lord_n	privy_a	2,935	5	10.5102	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54343	A Perfect narrative of the apprehension, tryal, and confession of the five several persons that were confederates in stealing the mace and the two privy purses from the Lord High-Chancellor of England as it was attested at the sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, the seventh and eigth of March, anno. 1676/7.		1677 (1677)	Wing P1500; Wing N177; ESTC R6676	2,374	10

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