Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	world_n	year_n	young_a	41	3	5.7282	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06205	A true account of the behaviour, confession, and execution of William Charley and Ann Scot, who received sentence of death on the 27th of August last, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, and were executed at Tyburn on Friday the 4th of this instant September 1685. : As also a brief account of the seven other persons, who received sentence of death with them, but before execution found mercy in a gracious reprieve, viz. John Thompson, Thomas Draper, Thomas Glanister, Cathrine Baucer, Cassandra Widdows, Ellenor Steel, and Elizabeth Hacker.		1685 (1685)	Wing T2346; ESTC R226729	3,745	4

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