Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	baron_n	chief_a	king_n	5,759	5	4.3153	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63198	The trial of the Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for inhumanely causing his own wife to be ravished, and for buggery	Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.	1679 (1679)	Wing T2227; ESTC R18229	8,611	16

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