Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	justice_n	sir_n	thomas_n	20,419	5	8.7306	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87940	A letter from Amsterdam to M.C. in London Discovering the taking of Sr. Thomas Armstrong with the narrow escape of my Lord Gray and Mr. Eerguson at Leyden in Holland.		1684 (1684)	Wing L1440; ESTC R226718	1,288	2

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