john wilkes. he was a rake of a fan and many time his actions i would not have approved of. but whether by design or just by circumstance, john wilkes weighs heavy in both america's history an in the history of great britain. john wilkes was from london. he stood for parliament, was a member of parliament, and he began a secret printing on thing he is didn't think that george iii was doing correctly in the 1760's. one of those that he printed in what was called the paper, the north britain new york north britain number 45, john wilkes actually inferred that george iii may have acted dishonestly in reaching a treaty with the french. needless to say, george iii was incensed that this happened. and he issued through his ministers what was known as a general warrant. that meaning that they could go, even though they didn't have specific person, didn't have a specific place, they could go into parts of london and search house to house seizing papers, property, whatever they thought might lead to the co