Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	esquire_n	thomas_n	william_n	6,579	5	8.9052	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26593	An Alarum to corporations, or, The giddy sort of hereticks designs unmaskt being a narrative of the unjust, barbarous, inhumane, trayterous practices of some of the Anabaptists and others ... at the town of Brecknock, in opposing the legall election of William Thomas, Esquire, and by force of arms, indeavoured the placing of one of their favourites, to the disturbance of the peace ...		1659 (1659)	Wing A827; ESTC R8729	6,110	9

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