Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	house_n	king_n	message_n	2,891	5	9.8604	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84625	A letter from the right honourable Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, Sir Hugh Cholmley, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir Henry Cholmley, committees of the Commons house of Parliament residing at Yorke. Together vvith a relation of all the passages at the great meeting at Yorke, on Thursday the 12. of this instant May, with the freeholders protestation inclosed in the letter from the said committee to master speaker, and ordered by the said house to be forthwith published in print. H. Elsing. Clre. Perl. [sic] de Com.	Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648.; Cholmley, Henry, Sir, 1609-1666.; Cholmley, Hugh, Sir, 1600-1657.; Stapleton, Philip, Sir, 1603-1647.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing F116; Thomason E148_4; ESTC R3177	7,328	16

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