Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	king_n	kingdom_n	sovereign_a	1,270	5	9.1238	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54862	A vindication of the King's sovereign rights together with A justification of his royal exercises thereof, in all causes, and over all persons ecclesiastical (as well as by consequence) over all ecclesiastical bodies corporate, and cathedrals, more particularly applyed to the King's free chappel and church of Sarum, upon occasion of the Dean of Sarum's narrative and collections, made by the order and command of the most noble and most honourable, the lords commissioners, appointed by the King's Majesty for ecclesiastical promotions : by way of reply unto the answer of the Lord Bishop of Sarum, presented to the aforesaid most honourable Lords.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2208; ESTC R31798	74,935	137

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