Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	law_n	limit_v	3,744	5	10.3160	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85862	The religious & loyal protestation, of John Gauden Dr. in Divinity; against the present declared purposes and proceedings of the Army and others; about the trying and destroying our soveraign lord the King. Sent to a collonell, to bee presented to the Lord Fairfax, and his Councell of Warre, this fift of January 1648.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing G368; Thomason E538_11; ESTC R204232	7,729	15

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