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	people_n	power_n	34,395	5	5.6262	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88647	An ansvver to a letter written from Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lunsford, Knight, and Baronet, prisoner in the Tower of London.	Lunsford, Thomas, aSir, 1610?-1653?.	1647 (1647)	Wing L3487; Thomason E397_5; ESTC R201665	1,564	7

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