Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	bench_n	knight_n	sir_n	3,525	5	7.0401	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52873	The New and strange imprisonment of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristol, by nailing them up in their meeting-house the 7th of the third month, called May, 1682 and the result of the tryal, upon the pretence of a riot against them : signified by persons of credit, and immediate sufferers in the said city : to be added to their late distressed case.		1682 (1682)	Wing N545; ESTC R42200	2,159	5

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