John Wilkes Esquire before the Court of King's Bench. John Wilkes, 1725 – 1797. English radical, journalist, and politician. He spent two years in King's Bench Prison and was fined £1000 for publishing seditious libel and obscene and impious libel. From an illustration by an unknown artist in The Gentleman's Magazine, May 1768.

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