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1. The longest serving Parliament in English history was named for these people and passed laws such as the Act of Uniformity that constituted the Clarendon Code

2. Thomas Wentworth was executed in the leadup to this war

3. This monarch was advised by Thomas Cromwell after a break with his former advisor Thomas More, whom he had beheaded

4. This monarch chartered the Levant Company and established relations with the Ottoman Empire, and the Moroccan ambassador to this ruler's court was Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud

5. He once held a telescopeto his blind eye to deliberately avoid seeing orders from Hyde Parker not to bombard Copenhagen

6. During oneelection, a newspaper asked that the last person to leave the country 'please turn out the lights' if thisparty were to win

7. He arranged his son's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field

8. He developed a personal rivalry with Viscount Halifax over the result of the Lucknow Pact

9. One invasion of this country, a few decades after itbecame a part of a larger country, began at Prestonpans and climaxed at Culloden

10. One of these groups formed after the collapse of another named Ostend

11. One contingent of these people were defeated by the Earl of Orkney at the Battle of Clontarf

12. He lost the support of the Liberal Unionists to Lord Salisbury, and he was publicly blamed for the death of General Gordon

13. This man wrote about the unification of Italy in his novel Lothair, and published his last book Endymion shortly before his death

14. if necessary alone' was made in a speech that also promised 'we shall fight on the beaches,' though Churchill also cautioned that 'wars are not won by' actions similar to this one

15. During this conflict, one group suffered 'Pride's Purge' , and that group later became known as the powerless 'Rump Parliament

16. A cartoon by James Gillray depicts this man holding the leader of a neighboring country in his hand, parodying Gulliver's Travels

17. This man resigned his highest political post after the botched Jameson Raid on the republic led by Paul Kruger

18. He became Home Secretary in 1822, during which term he established the Metropolitan Police Force in London, lending his name to the term 'bobby'

19. This man removed Clause IV from his party's constitution, which was part of this leader's idea of the 'Third Way'

20. This leader retreated to his childhood hunting location, the Somerset marshes, following a defeat at Chippenham, but then regrouped and won the Battle of Edington

21. Its member Lionel provided funds to Benjamin Disraeli so that Britain could purchase a controlling interest in the Suez Canal

22. This man's criticism of the Earl of Manchester's lackluster motivation led to the passage of the Self-Denying Ordinance, which prevented members of Parliament from holding military posts

23. The Darién scheme tried to establish a colony of this country in Panama

24. Bull-baiting was popular at Frost Fairs in this city, which was home to the Scriblerians

25. This organization expanded its influence via the controversial Doctrine of Lapse

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