According to legend, the first ever "peeping Tom" was looking at this wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia
The legend of the nude 
ride is first recorded in the 13th century, in the Flores Historiarum ... Just one 
person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed 
her... [DOC] [TLE] Who was the Tom in "Peeping Tom"?