Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	james_n	john_n	sir_n	63,767	5	6.8706	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38885	An Exact and perfect relation of the arrival of the ship the James and Mary, Captain Phipps commander with 2000000l. in gold and silver taken up in nine fathom water from the bottom of the sea, being a suppos'd wreck of a Spanish galion, cast-away above 43 years ago among the Bahama Islands / as it was taken from the aforesaid captain ...	Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695.	1687 (1687)	Wing E3604; ESTC R27354	2,074	2

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