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John Wilkes

English radical, journalist, and politician (1725–1797)

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  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • A doctor giving a woman some medicine in front of a group of disagreeing men; representing Dr. Musgrave's attempt to bring charges against a group of politicians who had allegedly taken bribes from the French to complete the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Etching, 1769.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
  • King George III sits in his library pondering which advice to accept: to govern by law or by force. Engraving, 1771.
  • Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.

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    [John Wilkes correspondence].

    John Wilkes | Date: 2008-
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    A letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton, on the present situation of public affairs

    John Wilkes | Date: [1768]
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    The north Briton , editors, John Wilkes, James Brooke.

    | Date: 1764
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    A letter to His Grace, the Duke of Grafton, first commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury

    John Wilkes | Date: 1767
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    A Narrative of the proceedings against John Wilkes, Esq : from his commitment in April 1763, to his outlawry : with a full view of the arguments used in Parliament and out of doors, in canvassing the various important questions that arose from his case.

    | Date: 1768
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Great Britain - Politics and government - 1760-1789
Freedom
Constitutional law - Great Britain

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