Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	great_a	sir_n	thomas_n	13,585	5	7.6855	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95173	A true relation of His Majesties coming to the town of Shrewsbury, on the 20 of this instant September, and his passage from thence the 23 day, to the city of Chester, with the manner of his entetainment [sic] there. Together with the L: Grandisons surprizing Nantwich, and the plundering of divers houses in the town and country thereabouts, of such as stood well-affected to the King and Parliament. Collected out of severall letters from men of good credit to their friends in London.	W. R.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2907; Thomason E119_3; ESTC R8581	3,850	8

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