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• 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
• They brought the word back to England, where it became corrupted into mammet or mommet and was used to describe a small image or doll.” He murmured, “Revered preceptress—” under his breath and went back to the book did see the man Edward Brand a-making of clay mammets in the likeness of divers gentlemen of the neighbourhood and their ladies and putting them to dry in the sun. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
• But you’re not asking me to believe that Mary was frightened by a mammet, are you Think, Frank!” He looked at her blankly. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
• (back Footnote 167: Probably the mammet, or mawmet, [puppet,] (a corruption, they say, of Mahomet,) of Scotland, was the pretended Richard, the deposed King, whom even now many believed to be still alive there. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. II by J. Endell Tyler
• of Spain, a kind of "mammet" (as the English called the Richard II. —  Saint-Germain the Deathless

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