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	member_n	speaker_n	3,122	5	10.8289	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87850	A declaration of William Lenthall, Esquire; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Shewing the grounds and reasons which moved him to absent himselfe from attending the service of the House on Fryday the 30th of July, 1647.	Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing L1071; Thomason E400_32; ESTC R201762	2,101	7

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