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	king_n	parliament_n	20,836	5	6.7377	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04466	The speech of Patrick Earl of Marchmont, &c., Lord High Chancellor to the Parliament of Scotland on Tuesday 29 October 1700.	Marchmont, Patrick Hume, Earl of, 1641-1724.	1700 (1700)	Wing M588; ESTC R180354	2,426	3

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