"Of Briton's race—if one surpass,
'A Man of Kent' is He."
Charles Sandys, F.S.A.
Canterbury.
Replies to Minor Queries.
Speculum Christianorum, &c. (Vol. v., p. 558.).—In case no fuller information should be forthcoming on this tract, allow me to refer Mr. Simpson to Ames's Typographical Dictionary, p. 113., where is an account of what is apparently another edition of the above, printed by William Machlinia, or Macklyn, about the year 1480. The title runs thus: Incipit liber qui vocatur Speculum Xpristiani. It is a short exposition of the common topics of divinity of that time, for the most part in Latin, but there is some English which is chiefly in rhyme. The first English lines are—
"In heauen shall dwelle alle cristen men
That knowe and kepe goddes byddynges ten."
At the end, after—