Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	subject_n	4,732	5	6.6515	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76913	The bloody Quaker or the Glocester-shire murder discovered Being an exact and true relation of a bloody murder, committed by one farmer restal a Quaker of Stoke near Tueksbury in Glocester-shire who with his son murdered the wife of one robert Hamond to whom he was indebted the summe of thirty pound, as also another young woman which had been married but four dayes before, and how the murder was discovered by the meanes of a boy which over run them, likewise their arraignment at Glocester assizes, their condemnation, with the execution of the son, the 7th of this present July and how the father is at present repreived. With allowance.		1668 (1668)	Wing B3291aA; ESTC R230872	3,669	12

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