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1. This man served as the first Lord President of the Council of the North

2. Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, and Thomas Cranmer were burnt at the stake on the grounds of this institution

3. This entity's creation was preceded by a marriage to Isabella of Angouleme, which cuckolded Hugh IX and led to Otto IV's loss at Bouvines to Philip Augustus

4. Members of this party include Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Robin Cook, who resigned as foreign secretary at the onset of the 2003 Iraq War

5. This man was coronated to his first throne after agreeing to the Solemn League and Covenant but subsequently lost it at the Battle of Worcester

6. This man had earlier rose to power under George I after the South Sea Bubble collapsed

7. While the country was crippled by strikes, a leader from this party was panned for saying 'Crisis What Crisis' during a press conference and was photographed swimming off of Guadeloupe

8. This group, which fought on behalf of the Rump Parliament, won at Naseby and opposed Charles I

9. Its first phase contained the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby, the latter featuring the New Model Army

10. This man was given his most famous post through the Instrument of Government, and William Lenthall was the speaker of the first parliament during this man's reign

11. This man wrote a history that began with the volume The Gathering Storm and was the subject of a Keynes essay criticizing his return to the gold standard

12. During his last decade of rule, his son served as Regent because this ruler went insane, possibly due to porphyria

13. Resistance to this action resulted in the devastation of Northumbria during the Harrying of the North

14. Christian Europe was thrown into panic when one of these events destroyed the abbey of Lindisfarne, the first of many monasteries in the British isles to be targeted by them

15. This king appointed William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury

16. This monarch issued the Declaration of Indulgence, which granted religious toleration to Christians

17. This king fought in the Ninth Crusade and expelled the Jews from England

18. Its war for independence is known as the Black and Tan War, and the Battle of the Boyne was fought in this nation

19. that attempt is the Lithgow Plot

20. Though he successfully occupied Snowdonia, his military accomplishments abroad were less glorious, with the failures that were the Eighth and Ninth Crusades, and he was not numbered the fourth, though he was the fourth English king of his name

21. that minister was Ernest Bevin

22. The 'Princes in the Tower' were imprisoned during this war, which ended with death of Richard III at Bosworth Field, allowing Henry VII Tudor to become king

23. This figure replaced Edward Heath as party leader, and the IRA's Brighton Bombing targeted this leader

24. Two months after this battle, the victor was crowned king in London

25. He was a close friend of Queen Victoria, and created her Empress of India with the 1876 Royal Titles Act