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POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 213 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER , the name of a class of persons who were entitled in certain See also:English boroughs to the See also:parliamentary See also:franchise. The word is usually taken to mean literally " one who boils a pot," from " See also:wallop " or " gallop," which See also:Skeat (Etym. Dict., 1898) connects with the Old See also:Low Ger. wallen, to See also:boil, cf. " well," i.e. which springs or boils up. The " Potwalloper " was defined in See also:Curry's See also:Case, 1838 (Falc and Fitz., p. 311) as " one, whether he be a householder or a lodger, who has the See also:sole dominion over a See also:room with a fireplace in it, and who furnishes and cooks his own See also:diet at his own fireplace." The See also:Representation of the See also:People See also:Act (1832) reserved these See also:ancient franchise rights to their then holders only. In the Return of Parliamentary Constituencies (See also:Electors, &c.), 1898, there was one " potwalloper " on the See also:register.

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