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	sir_n	60,835	5	6.8572	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48007	A letter from a gentleman of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, to Colonel Roderick Mansel containing an account of the first discovery of the pretended Presbyterian plot at the assizes at Wisbich in the Isle of Ely, upon the 23 day of September 1679.	Gentleman of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire.; Mansell, R. (Roderick)	1679 (1679)	Wing L1398; ESTC R9396	3,139	6

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