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
A65349	A general mistake co[r]rected, or, The vindiction of the right honourable the Countess Dowager of Essex and the bishop of Salisbury in the gazette of the 31st of July last : no argument against, but for the truth of the murder of that great patriot Arthur, late, Earl of Essex : in a letter to a friend, August the 2d, 1690.	T. W.	1690 (1690)	Wing W120; ESTC R7160	2,425	3

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