| Title: | An Authentick account of the proceedings against John Wilkes, Esq; Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and late colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia. Containing all the papers relative to this interesting affair, from that gentleman's being taken into custody by His Majesty's messengers, to his discharge at the Court of Common Pleas. : With an abstract of that precious jewel of an Englishman, the Habeas Corpus Act. : Also the North Briton no. 45. Being the paper for which Mr. Wilkes was sent to the Tower. : Addressed to all lovers of liberty. |
| Rights/Permissions: |
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information. |
| Print source: | An Authentick account of the proceedings against John Wilkes, Esq; Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and late colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia. Containing all the papers relative to this interesting affair, from that gentleman's being taken into custody by His Majesty's messengers, to his discharge at the Court of Common Pleas. : With an abstract of that precious jewel of an Englishman, the Habeas Corpus Act. : Also the North Briton no. 45. Being the paper for which Mr. Wilkes was sent to the Tower. : Addressed to all lovers of liberty. Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas. [Philadelphia]: London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed: and to be sold by W. Dunlap, in Market-Street,, M,DCC,LXIII [1763]. |
| Subject terms: |
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.
Trials (Libel) -- Great Britain.
Freedom of the press -- Great Britain.
Libel and slander -- Great Britain.
Habeas corpus -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789.
|
| URL: | https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N07474.0001.001 |
| How to cite: | For suggestions on citing this text, please see Citing the TCP on the Text Creation Partnership website. |
|
Table of Contents
|
|
