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	ormond_n	11,780	5	13.4357	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53437	A letter from His Grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in answer to the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal, his observations & reflections upon the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoires concerning the rebellion of Ireland. And concerning which, the complaint of the Duke of Ormond in council now depends against the Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy-Seal. Printed from the original, with an answer to it, by the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1682 (1682)	Wing O448A; ESTC R201997	1,992	6

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