Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	john_n	richard_n	william_n	14,181	5	8.7823	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89479	A notable plot discovered in a letter sent by an agent here in London, to the Earl of Cleveland at the Hague: shewing, how the said agent set the Committee of Mincing-lane on worke, to procure an Act to put out all the old officers of the Custom-house, by which means the Customes will be destroyed. Printed (together with a list of the names of the said committee, and of the officers cashiered, and to be cashiered) for the information of the Commons of England; especially such as hold any offices in the kingdome.	J. M.; Cleveland, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1591-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing M43; Thomason E555_30; ESTC R11029	3,885	7

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