waitingmaid

[406] The humble student would not have dared to raise his eyes to a lady of family; but, when he had become a clergyman, he began, after the fashion of the clergymen of that generation, to make love to a pretty waitingmaid who was the chief ornament of the servants 'hall, and whose name is inseparably associated with his in a sad and mysterious history.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829