Pat Reynolds wrote: >What I remember reading is ... that in the inventories of some early >settlement or settlements (?New England ?Plimouth Plantation), there >were lots of references to 'looking glasses', which was a slang term of >the time for chamber pots. Try James Deetz, In Small Things forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life, Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1977, page 10. "Numerous listings of 'looking glasses' in inventories of early-seventeenth-century Plymouth might lead the reader to believe there was a good supply of mirrors. While this is possible, we learn from the Oxford English Dictionary that 'looking glass' was a common vernacular term for chamber pot during the first half of the seventeenth century." Hope this helps, LJ Cook