Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	7,334	5	10.0491	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93026	Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1675 (1675)	Wing S2906A; ESTC R183788	9,013	17

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