Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	king_n	parliament_n	peer_n	1,325	5	10.5030	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84168	An apology for the royal party: written in a letter to a person of the late Councel of State. / By a lover of peace and of his country. With a touch at the pretended plea for the army.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3482; Thomason E763_11; ESTC R209831	14,277	16

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