Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	john_n	king_n	sir_n	55,943	5	6.2501	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26127	An Account of the tryal and conviction of Sir John Friend for high-treason in conspiring the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King William, and the subvertion of the government, &c. : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily on Monday the 23d of this instant March, 1696, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the Lord Chief Justice Treby, &c.	Friend, John, Sir, d. 1696.; England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1696 (1696)	Wing A412; ESTC R8193	1,448	2

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