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1. This event was spurred by the Declaration of Indulgence, and it resulted when the central figure had a son who trumped his Protestant sister in the line to the throne

2. In order to legitimize his wife this man repealed the Titulus Regius, and he arranged a marriage for his son Arthur with the Treaty of Medina del Campo

3. This man's early service in the West Indies with Prince William Henry led the future king to giveaway this man's bride, Frances Nisbet

4. According to William of Poitiers [pwa-TYEY], the use of a feigned flight tactic in this battle resulted in the loss of one side's bodyguards, known as Housecarls

5. This ruler was the last of the House of Hanover

6. The monarch who signed this document had been excommunicated by Pope Innocent the Third

7. The victors of this battle were slowed in their pursuit because of an ambush at the mal fosse

8. The later years of his reign saw church reform under his archbishop Lanfranc, as well as the defeat of Malcolm Canmore in retribution for his sheltering of Edgar Atheling, the successor of his great opponent, Harold Godwinson

9. That commander was killed during this battle by an arrow to the eye, according to the Bayeux Tapestry

10. Under this king, the Statute of Laborers was introduced as an attempt to keep wages low despite major population loss caused by the Black Death

11. The Jacobite uprising of 1745 was put down by a monarch of this name, whose son of the same name went insane due to undiagnosed porphyria

12. While serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Shelburne, he developed a rivalry with Charles James Fox

13. This country's southern neighbor attempted to force a political marriage on its infant queen in the Rough Wooing, which also aimed to break up the Auld Alliance between this country and France

14. Two female martyrs living in this country were tied to stakes and drowned by the rising tide as part of a period of religious violence known as the 'Killing Time

15. This ruler signed the Treaty of Messina with Tancred of Sicily

16. His daughter Adela was the mother of Stephen of Blois

17. A king of this name issued the Hundred Rolls census, which led him to establish quo warranto proceedings

18. The Times and The Daily Mail attacked this man during a scandal over the shortage of shells at the front

19. The book Guilty Men lambasted this man's promise of 'peace for our time' after the Munich Agreement

20. Thomas Carlyle raised the 'Condition of England' question in a pamphlet titled for this movement

21. Edmund Burke led the prosecution during the lengthy impeachment trial of a leader of this organization, Warren Hastings

22. The Casket Letters were used to prosecute this queen after the Ridolfi plot sought to install her on her cousin's throne in England

23. This king paid to re-inter the bodies of Arthur and Guinevere and set up his own Round Table at Nefyn

24. This event failed when Francis Tresham's letter to William Parker was [*] acquired by Robert Cecil

25. The losing monarch of this battle fought near Ambion Hill is often accused of having murdered the Princes in the Tower, and that monarch was famously unhorsed during this engagement