John Christian Curwen

Hints on Agricultural Subjects

And on the Best Means of Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes

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Thoughts on the present depressed state of the agricultural interest of this Kingdom; and on the rapid increase of the Poor-Rates: with observations on Mr. Curwen's plan for bettering the condition of the Poor. [Subscribed, “A Magistrate,” i.e. R. Fellowes.]

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Sketch of a Plan ... for bettering the condition of the labouring classes of the community, and for equalizing, and reducing the amount of the present parochial assessments. Submitted to the Committee appointed by the House of Commons for taking the laws respecting the poor into consideration

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Observations on the State of Ireland

Principally Directed to Its Agriculture and Rural Population; in a Series of Letters, Written on a Tour Through that Country

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Hints on the Economy of Feeding Stock and Bettering the Condition of the Poor

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Speech ... in the House of Commons, on the 21st of February 1817, on a motion for a committee to take into consideration the Poor Laws

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Carlisle Election for 1816. The proceedings, addresses, songs, squibs, epigrams, &c. &c. published and circulated during the contested election for Carlisle, in 1816, occasioned by the death of Henry Fawcett ... With the poll book complete, of all the freemen who voted for J. C. Curwen, Esq. and Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart ... And a preface, containing an historical sketch of the Lonsdale faction, and the various contests in Carlisle since the year 1786

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Thoughts on the Present Depressed State of the Agricultural Interest of this Kingdom

And on the Rapid Increase of the Poor Rates : with Observations on Mr. Curwen's Plan for Bettering the Condition of the Poor ; and a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of the Poor Laws, Till They are Reduced Within the Scope and Intention of the Forty-third of Elizabeth; as the Only Efectual Remedy in the Present Alarming State of Pauperism

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A comparative statement of the food produced from arable and grass land ... With remarks on the late enclosures ... drawn up from Mr. Archdeacon Heslop's pamphlet on that subject; and the remarks of Messrs. Curwen, Boys, Culley and others: with additions and observations by W. Pitts, etc

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The Worthies of Cumberland

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A Speech Delivered by J.C. Curwen, Esq. M.P. to a Numerous Meeting of the Freemen and Inhabitants of the City of Carlisle, on the Twenty-sixth of June Last, Convened for the Purpose of Petitioning His Majesty to Dismiss His Present Ministers

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Some Considerations on the Game Laws

Suggested by the Late Motion of Mr. Curwen for the Repeal of the Present System

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Hints on Agricultural Subjects

And on the Best Means of Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes

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