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Survey of London
… C7/668/31, C7/299/10, suit between Owen Swiney and Robert Wilkes, Thomas Doggett and Colley Cibber concerning the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 26 During these years a local yeoman noted that 'Mr Wilkes of Ashton seteth the grounds for her and maketh …
Old and New London
… of the debates; but on being brought before Alderman Wilkes, he discharged them. The House then proceeded against … could be executed in the City but by its ministers. Wilkes also had received an order to attend at the bar of the … to prevent the publication of the Parliamentary debates." WILKES ON HIS TRIAL ( From a Contemporary Paint) At his …
Old and New London
… says Timbs, other dining-rooms, as the Venetian Parlour, Wilkes's Parlour, &c. The drawing-room and ball-room are …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… H. 1719 4 June Dagwell, J. By 1719 Woods, W. 1719 16 Sept. Wilkes, J. By 1721 Baughes, H. 1721 30 Mar. Crouch, J. 1721 …
Old and New London
… by Alderman Townsend, and in it, tradition says, John Wilkes has been often entertained. A very peculiar custom …
Old and New London
… with Elphinstone; 'Junius,' from a communication with Wilkes. Here, in his carriage, is King William III. going … Kensington Gore, was the occasional residence of John Wilkes, who here entertained Counts Woronzow and Nesselrode, …
Old and New London
… idol to dinner at the Dillys to meet the notorious "Jack Wilkes." To Boswell's horror, when he went to fetch Johnson, … On discovering "a certain gentleman in lace," and he Wilkes the demagogue, Johnson was at first somewhat … recovered himself, and behaved like a man of the world. Wilkes quickly won the great man. They soon set to work …