Elizabeth Cellier Great Missenden Church, Buckinghamshire. She wrote: Mrs. Cellier is an important character in Alison Macleod's historical novel "The Portingale", a biography of Queen Catherine of Braganza. Elizabeth Cellier Elizabeth Cellier (commonly known as Mrs. Cellier and dubbed the "Popish Midwife"), flourished 1668–1688, London, England, was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot" against the future James II but was acquitted. She later became a pamphleteer and made attempts to advance the field of midwifery. Elizabeth Cellier was a noted London midwife, who came into prominence
Tub (unit) a tub of salt was 18 Imperial gallons. Tub (unit) Tub was a unit of capacity or of weight used in Britain and elsewhere. British laws for the sale of goods defined a tub of butter as a receptacle of a size which could contain 84 pounds of butter. 1 tub of butter or cheese = 84 pounds 1 tub = 1.5 Firkin (1 Firkin = 56 lbs) 1 tub = The "Oxford English Dictionary" has quotations illustrating other values of a "tub" as a unit: In Newfoundland, Canada, a tub of coal was defined as 100 pounds, while a