The Stone Gallery and the late apartments of the royal mistresses in Whitehall were burned down in 1691, and the whole edifice was almost totally destroyed by fire through the negligence of a Dutch maidservant in 1697.

Scarcely more edifying are the considerations of self-interest which should guide a maidservant into the paths of virtue.

She had pledged herself to prevent this, and had made a private appeal to the maidservants with whose Sunday-out they interfered.

He bled my maidservants for "beer and 'baccy."

He is instructed in the manner in which it will be most proper for a married man to carry himself towards the maidservants of his family, and also the manner of behavior best becoming a husband on a full detection of his wife's infidelity.

61.Dress of Maidservants in the Thirteenth Century.