Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	year_n	york_n	3,512	5	9.5234	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78590	The character of an Oxford-incendiary.		1645 (1645)	Wing C2014; Thomason E279_6; ESTC R200029	7,475	8

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