Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	constable_n	justice_n	warrant_n	3,871	5	9.8211	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75648	An Account of the seizing or apprehending, behaviour, confession, and commitment to Newgate of Mary St. Dunstan (born near Temple-bar), the bloody midwife's servant committed by warrant from the right honourable Sir John Fleet, knight, Lord Mayor : with an account of reasons for the midwife's poysoning of her self in Newgate.		1693 (1693)	Wing A382A; ESTC R173165	3,605	2

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