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	people_n	tyranny_n	2,786	5	9.5807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82204	A declaration of the officers belonging to the brigade of Col. Iohn Lambert, commander in cheif [sic] in the northern parts, now lying leaguer before Pontefract Castle, at a general meeting of them, to advise upon (and declare their sence of) the present condition of affairs of the kingdom, to his Excellency the Lord General Fairfax and his General Councel. As also Col. Lambert's letter to the General concerning the same. By the appointment of the officers at a general meeting. Pontefract, Decemb. 12. Signed, Tho. Margetts.		1648 (1648)	Wing D729; Thomason E477_10; ESTC R205538	5,222	8

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