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1. A complaint about tax rates - "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" Fbone
2. Part of the propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church during the reign of King Henry VIII
3. The Great Plague of 1665 - "Ring a Ring o' Roses" Bilbo1967
4. Making fun of Mary, Queen of Scots - "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" Bilbo1967
5. Making fun of the defeated Richard III
6. Making fun of Cardinal Wolsey's humble origins - "Little Boy Blue" Fbone
7. The burial of a human sacrifice in the foundation of a building - "London Bridge is Falling Down" Fbone
8. Persecution of Protestants under Mary I
9. The busy home life of Queen Caroline, wife of George II - "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" Bookpossum
10. Making fun of an official who supposedly did rather well out of the dissolution of the monasteries in England - "Little Jack Horner" orlok
Bonus question:
What's the rhyme that
- is sometimes said to refer to the worship of the Egyptian goddess Hathor
- makes an appearance in altered form in a well-known fantasy novel
"Hey Diddle Diddle", and the novel is The Fellowship of the Ring Bookpossum
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