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	king_n	york_n	13,001	5	9.6505	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32306	A message sent from the King of Scots, and the Duke of York's court in Flanders to the Lord Douglas, and Collonel Brown, to be communicated to the rest of the nobility and gentry in the Scottish nation, with proposals and overtures, for the composing of all differences, the submitting to Counsel, and the preventing of a universal desolation.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Culpepper, C.; James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3128; ESTC R18313	3,654	7

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