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POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER , the name of a class of persons who were entitled in certain
English
  boroughs to the
parliamentary
  franchise. The word is usually taken to mean literally " one who boils a pot," from "
wallop
  " or " gallop," which
Skeat
  (Etym. Dict., 1898) connects with the Old Low Ger. wallen, to boil, cf. " well," i.e. which springs or boils up. The " Potwalloper " was defined in
Curry
 's
Case
 , 1838 (Falc and Fitz., p. 311) as " one, whether he be a householder or a lodger, who has the
sole
  dominion over a room with a fireplace in it, and who furnishes and cooks his own
diet
  at his own fireplace." The Representation of the
People
  Act (1832) reserved these ancient franchise rights to their then holders only. In the Return of
Parliamentary
  Constituencies (Electors, &c.), 1898, there was one " potwalloper " on the
register
 .


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