jan 1, 1597 - maumet

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A spelling of Mahomet, a false god or an image of one; an idol. The term was associated by Protestants with Catholicism, specifically with images of saints brought into the church: 1596 <i> folowed theire vanitie althe night in sekynge there Mawmet commonly called the Floure of thwell would nedes bringe the same on a barrow into the churche in prayer time ... with suche a noyse of pyping ... that the minister was constreyned to leave of reading of prayer </i>, Alborough (PTD169). Similarly two Hunsingore men were accused in 1597 of bringing <i> a Toie called the flower of the Well </i> into the church (YRS3/57-8).

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