Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	john_n	48,781	5	6.3855	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20467	A most excellent exploit perfourmed by Monsieur de Diguieres, the French kinges lieutenant, vpon the Popes armie which was vnder the conduct of Earle Hercules the popes nephew With the taking of Sainct Esprite, and the mutiny in Paris. Together with a discourse of the ouerthrow of the Duke of Sauoyes army defeated by the Lord de Diguieres, in the plaine of Pont-Charra, near to Castle Bayard, in the vale of Gresiuodan the eighteenth of September, 1591. Printed at Toures by Iames Mattayer printer to the Kings Maiesty, and truely translated into English, according to the same coppy.	Aggas, Edward.	1591 (1591)	STC 6878; ESTC S116591	8,443	18

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