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1. This ruler briefly served as the High Sheriff of Cornwall and was born to the sixteen year-old Mary De Bohun

2. Charles I ordered the arrest of his enemies in Parliament, known by this name

3. This politician resigned from the Cabinet when the Prime Minister proposed granting extra funds toMaynooth College

4. One member of this party resolved the Fashoda crisis before this party's victory in its country's first 'khaki' election

5. This man is the only politician from his country to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State

6. Clauses 47 and 48 of this document abolished most of Forest Law, and Clause 27 deals with intestacy

7. This woman was one of three female rulers attacked, along with her British cousin and French mother, in John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

8. Devolution in Northern Ireland was helped along by this man's work on the Good Friday Agreement

9. Neo-druid William Price fled the country disguised as a woman after participating in this group' sattack on the Westgate hotel

10. This man's official residence is Clarence House, which is located in the city of Westminster

11. Supporters of this group were killed in Preston during an action planned by this group called the PlugPlot

12. An 1854 act named for this place created the Hebdomadal Council and opened it to dissenters

13. This ruler fought alongside his father at the Battle of Reading, where they suffered a defeat at the hands of forces under Halfdan Ragnarsson

14. He worked with the Canningite William Huskisson to create a moderate government, and he worked at convincing Robert Peel and George IV that Catholic emancipation was needed

15. The Neolithic town of Skara Brae is known as this country's 'Pompeii

16. This king's opposition to the appointment of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury led to his excommunication by Innocent III

17. Andrew Ducarel (' doo-cuh-RELL' ) rediscovered the importance of this object in 1752

18. 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

19. Vessels built by these people utilized the clinker method

20. For attempting to cut school lunches, this leader was nicknamed 'milk snatcher,' and this leader survived a coal miner's strike after closing state-run mines

21. This ruler signed the Intercursus Magnus trade agreement, and the Star Chamber Act was passed under his rule

22. In one speech, this man claimed that he had 'nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'

23. Clause sixty-one of this document, known as the 'Security Clause,' created the Great Council

24. This kingdom ceased to exist in 1707 with the Acts of Union, when it was subsumed into Great Britain

25. A member of this party was criticized by the headline 'Crisis What Crisis' during the Winter of Discontent

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