Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	house_n	lord_n	upper_a	3,519	5	10.3216	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92318	A briefe and perfect relation, of the answeres and replies of Thomas Earle of Strafford; to the articles exhibited against him, by the House of Commons on the thirteenth of Aprill, An. Dom. 1641..	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.; S. R.	1647 (1647)	Wing R68; Thomason E417_19; ESTC R203328	82,767	116

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