Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	esq_n	honourable_a	john_n	14,689	5	7.6328	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40968	The excise rectify'd, or, A plain demonstration that the revenue now raised thereby, is capable of being improved at least four or five hundred thousand pounds per annum, which is now paid by the subject, but diverted from its proper chanel into private hands	Farthing, John.	1696 (1696)	Wing F531; ESTC R6561	7,640	17

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