To gratify her sweet grace, I'll turn potboy, and wait upon the gossips of the tap.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
A potboy, rushing past with his arms full of tankards, bumped into the landlord; but not even this aroused him.
"The Grey Cloak"
Harold MacGrath
It followed that Peter Bartholomew, potboy, made irritable objections to that old joke which finished his name as though it were a cat calling, and the offence being repeated, he dealt an impartial swing of his stick at divers heads, and told them to take that, which they assured him they had done by sending him flying into a hedge.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith