See also:

• POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER

POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER  , the name of a class of persons who were entitled in certain See also:

• ENGLISH

English boroughs to the See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

• FRANCHISE (from 0. Fr. franchise, freedom, franc, free)

franchise . The word is usually taken to mean literally " one who boils a pot," from " See also:

• WALLOP, SIR HENRY (c. 1540-1599)
• WALLOP, SIR JOHN (c. 1490-1551)

wallop " or " gallop," which See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat (Etym . Dict., 1898) connects with the Old See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low Ger. wallen, to See also:

• BOIL

boil, cf . " well," i.e. which springs or boils up . The " See also:

• POTWALLOPER, or POTWALLER

Potwalloper " was defined in See also:

• CURRY

Curry's See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

Case, 1838 (Falc and Fitz., p . 311) as " one, whether he be a householder or a lodger, who has the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole dominion over a See also:

• ROOM

room with a fireplace in it, and who furnishes and cooks his own See also:

• DIET

diet at his own fireplace." The See also:

• REPRESENTATION

Representation of the See also:

• PEOPLE

People See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act (1832) reserved these See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient franchise rights to their then holders only . In the Return of Parliamentary Constituencies (See also:

• ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

Electors, &c.), 1898, there was one " potwalloper " on the See also:

• REGISTER

register .