Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	1,812	5	9.9546	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80477	The copy of a letter, sent from a well affected gentleman of the county of Surrey, to a gentleman in Kent. Communicating unto him the whole processe of that horrid massacre in Westminster, on Tuesday, May the 16. Together, vvith his owne, and others sense thereupon, in relation to the good of both counties.		1648 (1648)	Wing C6141; Thomason E445_3; Thomason E445_11; ESTC R204768	3,523	8

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