Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	marriage_n	2,830	5	8.3140	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37300	The memoires of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret transactions and affairs of France, from the death of Henry IV till the beginning of the ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu : to which is added a particular relation of the Arch-Bishop of Embrun's voyage into England, and of his negociation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick religion here : together with the Duke of Buckingham's letters to the said Arch-Bishop about the progress of that affair, which happened the last years of King James I, his reign / faithfully translated out of the French original.; Mémoires de M. Deageant. English	Deageant, Guichard, d. 1645.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.	1690 (1690)	Wing D490; ESTC R5548	101,034	282

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