Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	according_a	assistant_n	warden_n	300	4	11.9866	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54523	The petition and case of the London pilots To the honorable the master, wardens, assistants, and elder bretheren of the Trinity House. The humble petition of Robert Lash, Robert Young, Thomas Langly, Thomas Lintal, William Read, Adam Knowler, Samuel Hust, Anthony Thomson, Roger Bunting, Paul Phillips, and Phillip Stafford, and others, the pilots of London members of this corporation.		1689 (1689)	Wing P1735A; ESTC R221456	3,582	4

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