_Derivation of "Mammet"_ (Vol. viii., p. 515.).--It may help to throw light
on this question to note that Wiclif's translation of 2 Cor. vi. 16. reads
thus: "What consent to the temple of God with _mawmetis_?" Calfhill, in his
_Answer to Martiall_ (ed. Parker Soc., p. 31.), has the following sentence:
"Gregory, therefore, if he had lived but awhile longer; and had seen
the least part of all the miseries which all the world hath felt since,
only for maintenance of those _mawmots_; he would, and well might, have
cursed himself, for leaving behind him so lewd a precedent."