Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	knight_n	sir_n	10,943	5	6.7727	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93435	The case of Anne Smyth, the wife of Daniell Smyth, one of the daughters of Sir John Danvers of Culworth in the county of Northampton Kt, deceased, truly stated. Humbly tendred to the consideration of the supreme authority of England, the Commons assembled in Parliament.	Smyth, Anne.	1650 (1650)	Wing S4358; Thomason 669.f.15[61]; ESTC R212044	2,989	1

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