Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	great_a	sir_n	19,080	5	5.8097	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49259	Exceeding joyfull newes from Ireland, or, A true relation of a great and happy victorie obtained by Colonell David Douglasse and Sir Iames Carr, two Scottish commanders, with the helpe of the Scots planted in the North of Ireland against the arch-rebels Philemy Oneal, the Earle of Delvin and Sir Denis Butler where there was 6 or 7000 of the rebels slaine ... / written from Dublin, Febr. 18 by Tho. Lancton, secretarie unto Sir Charles Coote and received by the last post Febr. 23, 1641.	Lancton, Thomas.	1641 (1641)	Wing L318; ESTC R30488	3,152	10

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