Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	chief_a	king_n	sir_n	11,063	5	6.3376	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41187	A letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench; occasioned by the noise of a plot; Letter to the Right Honourable, my Lord Chief Justice Holt, occasioned by the noise of a plot.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1694 (1694)	Wing F754A; ESTC R217367	28,048	20

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