Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.

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The North Briton . Revised and corrected by the author. Illustrated with explanatory notes, and a copious index of names and characters. In two volumes.
Date: 1764
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Liverymen, reflect before it be too late. Who will hereafter stand up in your defence, if the man who hath sacrificed friends, favour, fortune, who even risked his life for being the champion of your liberties, is suffered of sink under the weight of ministerial oppression! ..
Date: 1768
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Observations on the papers relative to the rupture with Spain , Laid before both Houses of Parliament, on friday the twenty-ninth day of January, 1762, by His Majesty's command. In a letter from a member of Parliament, to a friend in the country.
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]
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The North Briton , Xlvi. numbers complete. By John Wilkes, Esq. C. Churchill, and others. Illustrated with useful and explanatory notes, and a collection of all the proceedings in the House of Commons, and Courts of Westminster, against Mr. Wilkes. With all the tracts and papers Relating to the North Briton, Essay on Woman, election for Middlesex &c. The Whole forming a more Complete Collection than has hitherto been published. In four volumes.
Date: 1772
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Two new comic satiric dialogues that lately passed in the Tower . The first, between John Wilkes, Esq. member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and two of His Majesty's Lions. The second, between that gentleman, and the shade of the Late Sir William W******m. In which are introduced several modern political characters and entertaining anecdotes, with explanatory notes to the whole. To which is added, a genuine account of the whole proceedings against John Wilkes, Esq. from his commitment to the Tower, to his discharge in the Common-Pleas. With all the speeches, letters, &c. &c. &c. There honest satire numerous wrongheads trace, lur'd by a pension, ribband, or a place.
Date: 1763

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Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.

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The North Briton . Revised and corrected by the author. Illustrated with explanatory notes, and a copious index of names and characters. In two volumes.

Liverymen, reflect before it be too late. Who will hereafter stand up in your defence, if the man who hath sacrificed friends, favour, fortune, who even risked his life for being the champion of your liberties, is suffered of sink under the weight of ministerial oppression! ..

Observations on the papers relative to the rupture with Spain , Laid before both Houses of Parliament, on friday the twenty-ninth day of January, 1762, by His Majesty's command. In a letter from a member of Parliament, to a friend in the country.

The annual necrology, for 1797-8; including, also, various articles of neglected biography

An epistle to William Hogarth . By C. Churchill.

The life of John Wilkes, Esq in the manner of Plutarch. Being a specimen of a larger work.

A letter concerning libels, warrants, the seisure of papers, and sureties for the peace or behaviour With a view to some late proceedings, and the defence of them by the majority.

A letter from Candor , To the Public Advertiser.

Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.

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The North Briton . Revised and corrected by the author. Illustrated with explanatory notes, and a copious index of names and characters. In two volumes.

Liverymen, reflect before it be too late. Who will hereafter stand up in your defence, if the man who hath sacrificed friends, favour, fortune, who even risked his life for being the champion of your liberties, is suffered of sink under the weight of ministerial oppression! ..

Observations on the papers relative to the rupture with Spain , Laid before both Houses of Parliament, on friday the twenty-ninth day of January, 1762, by His Majesty's command. In a letter from a member of Parliament, to a friend in the country.

The annual necrology, for 1797-8; including, also, various articles of neglected biography

An epistle to William Hogarth . By C. Churchill.

The life of John Wilkes, Esq in the manner of Plutarch. Being a specimen of a larger work.

A letter concerning libels, warrants, the seisure of papers, and sureties for the peace or behaviour With a view to some late proceedings, and the defence of them by the majority.

A letter from Candor , To the Public Advertiser.

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