One more tail of the man who put the Wilkes in Wilkesboro....

... a small quote I discovered while listening to a recorded book of Antonia Frazer's Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. The author is talking about King George III, before he went mad, and before he'd lost the colonies. Poor George was already having troubles,

"whilst the irresponsible libertine John Wilkes stirred the London mob to riot and sedition."

Irresponsible libertine! Riot and sedition!

But he wanted liberty for the colonies and that made him an admirable man, at least to our ancestors around here.