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	prince_n	13,152	5	5.9482	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18670	Certayne newes of the whole discription, ayde, and helpe of the Christian princes and nobles the vvhich for the comfort and deliueraunce of the poore Christians in the Low Countries, are gathered together, and are nouue vvith their armies in the fielde : drawen and copied out of a letter, sent vnto vs out of the same campe ... / translated out of Dutche into English, the 12. of April.		1574 (1574)	STC 5182.2; ESTC S1858	3,695	16

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