Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	earl_n	lord_n	privy_a	8,325	5	10.7359	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45628	A true and perfect relation of that most horrid & hellish conspiracy of the gunpowder treason Discovered the 5th of November, anno Dom. 1605. Collected out of the best and most authentique writers, and now re-published. For further information, and to remember the people of England of Gods vvonderfull mercies and deliverances vouchsafed them, for his great name, and for his churches sake, in the defence and maintenance of the Protestant religion, established in these nations. With the names of those traytors that suffered for that bloody plot. By J.H. Gent.	J. H., Gent.	1662 (1662)	Wing H82C; ESTC R215848	11,541	18

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