Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	london_n	sir_n	thomas_n	15,251	5	7.9758	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85691	Old English blood boyling afresh in Leicestershire men: occasioned by the late barbarous invasion of the Scots. As appears by this letter from my Lord Grey, to Major Generall Skippon.	Groby, Thomas Grey, Baron of, 1623?-1657.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1969B; Thomason E461_7; ESTC R40522	1,618	7

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