10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTWALLER»
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Cases of Controverted Elections: Determined in Committees of ...
Mr. Bere contended, that the voter had lost his right as a potwaller, by having left
the borough of Taunton for such a time before the election as deprived him of the
right to vote. That residence within the ancient borough was an essential part of ...
Thomas Falconer, Edward H. Fitzherbert, 1839
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The Law and Practice of Elections in England, Scotland, and ...
Potwallers are those who furnish their own diet, whether householders or lodgers
; and a prentices cannot be potwallers with a right to vote. T e custom of the
borough of Taunton requires the potwaller to have a (1) 1 Doug. 245. (2) 1 Fras.
166.
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The Mirror of Parliament
... Inhabitant potwallers having a settlement in the parish of Taunton St. Mary
Magdalene, and not having received alms or charity within a year before the
election ; and that a potwaller, according to the usage of the said borough, and
within the ...
... is in inhabitant potwallers having a settlement in the parish of Taunton St. Mary
Ma dalene, and not- having received alms or c arity within a year before the
election; and that a potwaller, according to the usage of the said borough, and
within ...
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A manual of the law of registration & elections: with a ...
city or borough in England or Wales, " as an inhabitant, residence repaying scot
or lot, or as an inhabitant householder, house- ei'ties'and keeper and potwaller,
legally settled, or as an inhabitant 8or"^8^ householder, housekeeper and ...
James Edward Davis, Great Britain, 1869
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A Complete Dictionary of the Law and Practice of Elections ...
POTWALLER. Agreed, potwaller is a person who furnishes his own diet, whether
he be a householder, or only a lodger ; and it was agreed that to be a potwaller
qualified to vote in Taunton, it had always been understood that such person ...
John David Chambers, 1837
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A Treatise on the Law of Elections: In All Its Branches
No person shall vote as an inhabitant paying scot and lot, or as an inhabitant
housholder, housekeeper, and potwaller, or as an inhabitant housholder resiant,
or as an inhabitant of a city or borough, unless he shall have been actually and ...
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The Mirror of Parliament for the ... Session of the ... ...
... inhabitant potwallers having a settlement in the parish of Taunton St. Mary
Magdalene, and not having received alms or charity within a year before the
election ; and that a potwaller, according to the usage of the said borough, ana
within the ...
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Cupboard Love 2: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities
potwaller - poutine potwaller Throughout the eighteenth century, in some parts of
England, a man was allowed to vote in the parliamentary elections so long as he
was the head of his own household, and not simply a member of another man's ...
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Antient parliamentary elections: a history showing how ...
A committee of the House of Commons, in 1838, resolved, with respect to
Taunton, that a potwaller was one, ' whether he be a householder or lodger, who
has sole dominion over a room with a fireplace in it, and who furnishes and cooks
his ...
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Potwallers and Suffragettes: a very short history of UK electoral reform
OED Word of the Day: potwaller, n. A male householder or lodger with his own separate fireplace… http://t.co/oigGd2XtpS. — The OED ... «Quartz, May 15»
