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Observations on the Corn Bill, now depending in Parliament. By John Lord Sheffield.
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.Date: 1791
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Observations on the new corn bill: evincing that it is detrimental to the public, and unfriendly to agriculture, By Discouraging Tillage Husbandry. Likewise, an attempt to point out a mode whereby the people of England may be supplied with bread corn without importation. By an Essex farmer.
Essex Farmer.Date: 1793
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Observations on the bill for the sale of corn by weight, and for preventing frauds in the sale of corn by allowance, or addition, or by adulteration; As amended in the Committee of the House of Commons, during the session of Parliament 1795-6. Also the propriety of extending this ... to Scotland considered, with a [few] hints upon the general principle of the corn laws, as to export and import: By George Buchan Hepburn, Esq; of Smeaton, conveener of the county of East Lothian, judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, and honorary member of the Board of Agriculture.
Hepburn, George Buchan, Sir, 1739-1819.Date: 1796
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Considerations on the exportation of corn: wherein The principal Arguments produced in favour of the bounty are answered: and the Inferences commonly drawn from the Eton Register are disproved. To which are added, Some remarks on the Expediency of selling Corn by Weight and not by Measure.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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Considerations on the present dearness of corn, humbly offered to both Houses of Parliament.
Anglo Britannus.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]
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An enquiry into the nature of the corn-laws; with a view to the new corn-bill proposed for Scotland.
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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The great importance and necessity of increasing tillage, by an Act of Parliament, in Ireland, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, demonstrated: Together, With the Usefulness and Advantages of erecting Public Granaries, and granting Praemiums on the Exportation of Corn: In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable John, Earl Grandison.
Publicola.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]
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Sir Hercules Langrishe's speech, in the Irish House of Commons, April 7th, 1791, on the corn laws; Containing A State Of The Benefits This Country Has Derived From The Present System, And The Evils That Must Result From Any Material Alteration In IT.
Langrishe, Hercules, Sir, 1731-1811.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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The poor man's friend.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1795
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Observations on the Bill for the sale of corn by weight, and for preventing adulteration or addition. By George Skene Keith, A. M. Minister of Keith-Hall and Kinkell. Published at the Request of the County of Aberdeen.
Keith, George Skene, 1752-1823.Date: 1796
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An address to the different classes of persons in Great Britain, on the present scarcity and high price of provisions. To which is added an appendix, containing a Table of the average Price of Wheat in every Year from the Year 1595 to 1790, inclusive. By the Rev. Septimus Hodson, M. B. Chaplain of the Asylum for Female Orphans.
Hodson, Septimus, 1768-1833.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]
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Considerations concerning taking off the bounty on corn exported. In some letters to a friend. To which is added, a postscript, shewing that the price of corn is no rule to judge of the value of land; which will be encreased in Proportion to the Cheapness of its several Products.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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An inquiry into the corn laws and corn trade of Great Britain, and their influence on the prosperity of the Kingdom. With suggestions for the improvement of the Corn Laws. By the late Alexander Dirom, Esq. of Muiresk, in the County of Aberdeen. To which is added, a supplement, By Mr William Mackie of Ormiston in East Lothian, Bringing down the Consideration of the Subject to the Present Time; Investigating the Cause of the present Scarcity; and suggesting Measures for promoting the Cultivation of the Waste Lands; and for rendering the Produce equal to the increasing consumption of the Kingdom.
Dirom, Alexander, -1788.Date: 1796
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An impartial view of English agriculture, from permitting the exportation of corn, in the year 1663, to the present time.
Date: [1766]
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The occasion of the dearness of provisions, and the distress of the poor: with proposals for remedying the calamity, Offered to the Consideration of the Public: Wherein The Policy of the Bounty given upon the Exportation of Corn, the Inclosing of Commons, and Enlarging of Farms, are impartially considered. With some remarks on a late pamphlet, intituled, A letter to a Member of Parliament, on the present distresses of the poor. By a manufacturer.
Hustler, John, 1715-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]
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Men sit around a table on which sits a pot of 'Irish stew' as one man grabs the lapels of another man holding a spoon. Lithograph, 1845.
Date: [1845]Reference: 643490i
Part of: Political sketches by Foz
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Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
Date: [1844?]Reference: 13435i
Part of: Follit's Phrenology
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Three tracts on the corn-trade and corn-laws: Viz. 1. A short Essay on the Corn-Trade and the Corn-Laws, containing, a general relation of the present method of carrying on the Corn-Trade, and the Purport of the Laws relating thereto in this Kingdom, first printed in 1758. 2. Considerations on the Laws relating to the Importation and Exportation of Corn, being an inquiry what alteration may be made in them for the benefit of the Public, wrote in the beginning of the year 1759. 3. A Collection of Papers relative to the Price, Exportation, and Importation of Corn, with some Observations and Calculations, shewing what the Nation may be supposed to have gained by giving the Bounty on the Exportation, what the quantity of each sort of Corn annually Consumed, Exported, Imported, and Grown may amount to, and the Proportions they severally bear each to the other. To which is added, a supplement, containing several papers and calculations which tend to explain and confirm what is advanced in the foregoing tracts.
Smith, Charles, 1713-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]
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Thoughts upon several interesting subjects, viz. On the exportation of, and bounty upon corn, On the high Price of Provisions, On Manufactures, Commerce, &c. being a full answer to a pamphlet, lately published, intitled, The expendiency of a free exportation of corn at this time, &c. In Which 'tis proved, the Facts advanced by the Author, are falsified; and his Conclusions erroneous and false. With a Postscript, Containing some Remarks on the Bounty on Checks, printed Linens and Cottons, &c. and on Bounties in general. In a letter to a friend. By Mr. Wimpey.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: [1770]
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Essay on the contrarieties of publick virtue.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]
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An impartial view of English agriculture, from permitting the exportation of corn, in the year 1663, to the present time.
Date: 1766
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Considerations, upon the exportation of corn; written at the request of the Dublin Society. By John Wynn Baker, F.R.S.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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Thoughts on the repeal of the statute made in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King Edward VI. With some observations on the respect due to the authority of judges, and to the verdict of a jury. By a country magistrate.
Country Magistrate.Date: 1800
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A charge delivered to the Grand-Jury, at the quarter-sessions held at Durham, on Wednesday, the 16th of July, 1740. Concerning engrossing of corn and grain, and the riots that have been occasion'd thereby. By Edward Lord Bishop, and Custos Rotulorum, of the County Palatine of Durham. Published at the Enonimous Request of the Gentlemen of the Grand-Jury.
Chandler, Edward, 1668?-1750.Date: [1740]
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Observations on the statute of the thirty-first George II.ch.29. Concerning the Assize of bread; With occasional References to the 3d George III. chap. 11. - the 13th George III. chap. 62. - and to the late Statute for regulating the Assize of Bread in the City of London. By the Rev. Luke Heslop, Archdeacon of Bucks.
Heslop, Luke, 1738-1825.Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]

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Observations on the Corn Bill, now depending in Parliament. By John Lord Sheffield.

Observations on the new corn bill: evincing that it is detrimental to the public, and unfriendly to agriculture, By Discouraging Tillage Husbandry. Likewise, an attempt to point out a mode whereby the people of England may be supplied with bread corn without importation. By an Essex farmer.

Considerations on the exportation of corn: wherein The principal Arguments produced in favour of the bounty are answered: and the Inferences commonly drawn from the Eton Register are disproved. To which are added, Some remarks on the Expediency of selling Corn by Weight and not by Measure.

Considerations on the present dearness of corn, humbly offered to both Houses of Parliament.

An enquiry into the nature of the corn-laws; with a view to the new corn-bill proposed for Scotland.

Sir Hercules Langrishe's speech, in the Irish House of Commons, April 7th, 1791, on the corn laws; Containing A State Of The Benefits This Country Has Derived From The Present System, And The Evils That Must Result From Any Material Alteration In IT.

The poor man's friend.

Observations on the Bill for the sale of corn by weight, and for preventing adulteration or addition. By George Skene Keith, A. M. Minister of Keith-Hall and Kinkell. Published at the Request of the County of Aberdeen.

Considerations concerning taking off the bounty on corn exported. In some letters to a friend. To which is added, a postscript, shewing that the price of corn is no rule to judge of the value of land; which will be encreased in Proportion to the Cheapness of its several Products.

An impartial view of English agriculture, from permitting the exportation of corn, in the year 1663, to the present time.

Men sit around a table on which sits a pot of 'Irish stew' as one man grabs the lapels of another man holding a spoon. Lithograph, 1845.

Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.

Essay on the contrarieties of publick virtue.

An impartial view of English agriculture, from permitting the exportation of corn, in the year 1663, to the present time.

Considerations, upon the exportation of corn; written at the request of the Dublin Society. By John Wynn Baker, F.R.S.

Thoughts on the repeal of the statute made in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King Edward VI. With some observations on the respect due to the authority of judges, and to the verdict of a jury. By a country magistrate.