And at p. 175. this,—
"That Jesabel Irene, which was so bewitched with superstition, that all order, all honesty, all law of nature broken, she cared not what she did, so she might have her mawmots."
See also the editor's note on the use of the word in this last passage. In Dorsetshire, among the common people, the word mammet is in frequent use to designate a puppet, a doll, an odd figure, a scarecrow.
J. D. S.
Ampers and,
or
(Vol. viii., p. 173.).—Ampers