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	service_n	tenant_n	1,749	5	9.6534	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26172	Jani Anglorum facies nova, or, Several monuments of antiquity touching the great councils of the kingdom and the court of the kings immediate tenants and officers from the first of William the First, to the forty ninth of Henry the third, reviv'd and clear'd : wherein the sense of the common-council of the kingdom mentioned in King John's charter, and of the laws ecclesiastical, or civil, concerning clergy-men's voting in capital cases is submitted to the judgement of the learned.	Atwood, William, d. 1705?	1680 (1680)	Wing A4174; ESTC R37043	81,835	173

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the_o canon_n or_o constitution_n declare_v it_o unlawful_a for_o clergyman_n agitare_fw-la judicia_fw-la sanguinis_fw-la be_v embody_v into_o the_o law_n of_o the_o land_n ricardus_n vero_fw-la cant._n arch._n totius_fw-la angliae_fw-la primus_fw-la &_o apostolicae_fw-la sedis_fw-la legatus_fw-la convocato_fw-la clero_fw-la angliae_fw-la celebravit_fw-la concilium_fw-la in_o ecclesiâ_fw-la beati_fw-la petri_n ad_fw-la westm_n 15._o kal._n 1429._o junii_fw-la dominicâ_fw-la ante_fw-la ascensionem_fw-la dom._n afficerunt_fw-la in_o hoc_fw-la concilio_fw-la omnes_fw-la suffraganei_fw-la cantuar._n eccles_n praeter_fw-la vigorniens_fw-la qui_fw-la diem_fw-la clauserat_fw-la extremum_fw-la in_o hoc_fw-la concilio_fw-la ad_fw-la emendationem_fw-la anglicanae_n ecclesiae_fw-la assensu_fw-la domini_fw-la regis_fw-la &_o primorum_fw-la omnium_fw-la regni_fw-la haec_fw-la subscripta_fw-la promulgata_fw-la sunt_fw-la capitula_fw-la ad_fw-la dextram_fw-la primatis_fw-la sedit_fw-la episcopus_fw-la londinensis_fw-la quia_fw-la inter_fw-la episcopos_fw-la cantuar._n ecclesiae_fw-la sussraganeos_fw-la decanatus_fw-la praeminet_fw-la dignitate_fw-la ad_fw-la sinistram_fw-la sedit_fw-la episcopus_fw-la winton_n quia_fw-la cantoris_fw-la officio_fw-la praecellit_fw-la caeteri_fw-la tam_fw-la episcopi_fw-la quam_fw-la abbates_n secundum_fw-la primogenit_fw-la sup_v consecrationis_fw-la suae_fw-la consederunt_fw-la ipse_fw-la vero_fw-la archiepiscop_n that_o primus_fw-la &_o legatus_fw-la residens_fw-la in_o sublimi_fw-la post_fw-la sermonem_fw-la quem_fw-la tam_fw-la facundè_fw-la quam_fw-la disertè_fw-la fecit_fw-la in_o communi_fw-la de_fw-la scripto_fw-la legi_fw-la fecit_fw-la statuta_fw-la concilii_fw-la svi_fw-la sub_fw-la hac_fw-la forma_fw-la etc._n etc._n here_o it_o appear_v that_o their_o council_n be_v hold_v by_o the_o arch-bishop_n of_o cant._n that_o the_o statute_n or_o canon_n be_v draw_v up_o in_o some_o private_a consult_v of_o bishop_n but_o they_o 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