potwalloper BrE
potwalloner
potwaller

Honiton was regarded as a potwalloper borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane.

The borough had a Potwalloper electorate.

These were commonly known as "potwalloper" boroughs, because (it was said) anyone who owned a hearth which could boil a pot could vote.

From the time of the Restoration, the only English boroughs to elect on a potwalloper or inhabitant franchise were:

Tregony was a potwalloper borough, meaning that every (male) householder with a separate fireplace on which a pot could be boiled was entitled to vote.

(Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801).

The term 'potwalloper' was also used to refer to a trustee prisoner who made sure cell-buckets (for overnight use as latrines) were emptied and cleaned each morning.

Baltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.

He served as the secretary to Lord Deputy Chichester and represented the potwalloper constituency of Baltimore in the 1613 Irish Parliament.

The potwalloper was one of the widest variants of the borough franchise, and the tendency over the centuries was for the franchise to be limited, reducing the number of electors.

A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or wallop, a cauldron, or pot.

A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage.

In June 1806, Cochrane stood for the House of Commons on a ticket of parliamentary reform (a movement which would later bring about the Reform Acts) for the potwalloper borough of Honiton.

Baltimore was given the right to return two members to the Irish House of Commons, with the franchise known as a potwalloper (that is, where every householder with a hearth wide enough to boil (wallop) a pot had the vote).

Hindon was an example of the class of constituencies known as potwalloper boroughs, the right to vote being exercised by every householder, a household being notionally defined as any dwelling place with a separate hearth capable of heating a pot - this meant in effect that the majority of the male population could vote.

A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage.

A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage.