Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	world_n	year_n	yearly_a	19	3	8.6538	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29543	An explanatory dialogue of a late treatise, intituled, A discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, Lottery-act, and Bank of England with proposals for supplying Their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility, gentry, &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in humbly offered to the consideration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled by J. Briscoe.	Briscoe, John, fl. 1695.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4749; ESTC R19391	39,822	46

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