Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	elector_n	saxony_n	2,455	5	11.6845	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62163	The history of the state of the present war in Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Moravia, and Silesia between Leopold Emperour of Germany, and Mahamet the fourth Sultan of the Turks, in conjunction with Count Teckely and the Hungarian rebels. Giving an exact account of all the remarkable transactions from the beginning of the war, as sieges, battles, cessations, truces, treaties, denunciation of war, skirmishes, and other hostilities, to this time; but more particularly of the siege of Vienna, and the last great battle, &c. To which is added, a relation of the miseries the Christian captives undergo in Turky. All faithfully related according to the best and most authentick advice. By J. S. gent.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing S67; ESTC R219066	54,362	166

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