Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	king_n	law_n	legislative_a	2,500	5	12.7763	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89698	No droll, but a rational account, making out the probable fall of the present, with the rise and succession of what the English world understand by the term of a free Parliament: in a letter to a friend.		1660 (1660)	Wing N1175B; Thomason E1015_19; ESTC R32332	10,038	16

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