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Old and New London
… for the amusement of those royal personagesa fact to which Wilkes alludes more than once with a sly inuendo in one of …
Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts:
… Square; M.P., Bridgnorth 1771-95; member, Whig Club. Wilkes, John (1727-97): sheriff of London 1771-2, lord mayor …
Old and New London
… on the French system, and memoirs of Foote, Monk, Lewes, Wilkes, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. He published …
Old and New London
… has been outcaricatured by Nature no one will deny. Wilkes was so abominably ugly that he said it always took him …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the parish, arising from the benefaction of a person named Wilkes; but since that period no payment has been made. …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 23 The reign of George II to the trial of Wilkes CHAP. XXIII. From the accession of George III. to the commencement of the prosecution of Mr. Wilkes. No prince perhaps ever mounted a throne under happier …
A New History of London
… Ch. 24 1763-1769 CHAP. XXIV. From the prosecution of Mr. Wilkes, to his being elected alderman of the ward of … on the last day of April, took into custody John Wilkes, Esq; member for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Whether Mr. Wilkes was the author of this paper or not, the manner of …