Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	king_n	time_n	year_n	23,396	5	4.9641	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88800	Replies made to the antiqueries of Thomas Lye, who writes himself minister of the Gospel at Chard. Wherein the parish-minsters, call, and maintenance, and divers other matters now in controversie, are handled and debated, by H.L. a friend to the people of God called Quakers.	Lavor, Henry.	1658 (1658)	Wing L628; Thomason E934_2; ESTC R207677	54,307	76

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