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
William Waller (informer) was educated at Leiden University and afterwards travelled abroad. He inherited Osterley Park on the death of his father and sold it in 1670. Waller distinguished himself during the period of the Popish Plot by his activity as a Middlesex justice in catching priests, burning Roman Catholic books and vestments, and getting up evidence. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679, and early 1680 he was the discoverer of the meal-tub plot and one of the witnesses against Edward Fitzharris. In April 1680 the king put him out of the commission of the peace. Waller