mammet

Spain, a kind of "mammet" (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favorite sister of our Charles II.

The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910

a kind of 'mammet' (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favourite sister of our Charles II.

Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

In May, 1690 a new bride, Marie de Neuborg, was brought to the grisly side of the crowned mammet of Spain.

The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910

May 1690 a new bride, Marie de Neubourg, was brought to the grisly side of the crowned mammet of Spain.

Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

Now Johnson, {516} in his _Dictionary_, the folio edition, derives _mammet_ from the word

Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various 1852

Orleans in Scotland, and accorded with the Duke of Albany that this next summer he shall bring the mammet [167] of Scotland to stir what he may; and also that there should be found (p. 219) ways to the having away specially of the Duke of Orleans, and also of the K. as well as of the remnant of my said prisoners, that God do defend!

Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820

_mammet_ means "puppet," why not derive this word from the French _marmot_, which means a puppet.

Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various 1852

‘simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846