A strong presumption of his personal being is drawn from the fact that Liège is said to be the place of his burial, _see Appendix Harl._, 3589. 2, "qui obiit Leodii A.D. 1382." That he was believed to have lived at Liège is also shown in _Appendix Grenville_, 6728/3, where he is said to have written his book in the year 1355; and if Weever[3] is to believed, he died there, but at an earlier date, namely, 1371. Speaking of St. Albans, he says: "This Towne vaunts her selfe very much of the birth and buriall of _Sir Iohn Mandeuill_ Knight, the famous Trauailer, who writ in Latine, French, and in the English tongue, his Itinerary of three and thirty yeares. And that you may beleeue the report of the Inhabitants to bee true, they haue lately pensild a rare piece of Poetry, or an Epitaph for him, vpon a piller; neere to which, they suppose his body to haue beene buried, which I think not much amisse to set downe; for although it will not bee worth the reading, yet do but set it to some lofty tune, as to the _Hunting of Antichrist_, or the leke, I know it will be well worth the singing: marke how it runs. "'All yee that passe, on this pillar cast eye, This Epitaph read if you can; 'Twill tell you a Tombe onc't stood in this roome, Of a braue spirited man. _Iohn Mandeuill_ by name, a knight of great fame, Borne in this honoured Towne. Before him was none that euer was knowne, For trauaile of so high renowne. As the Knights in the Temple, crosse-legged in marble, In armour, with sword and with sheeld, So was this Knight grac't, which time hath defac't, That nothing but ruines doth yeeld. His Trauailes being donne, he shines like the Sun, In heauenly Canaan. To which blessed place, O Lord of his grace Bring vs all man after man.' "That he was borne heere in this Towne I cannot much deny; but I am sure that within these few yeares, I saw his Tombe in the Citie of Leege, within the Church of the religious house of the _Guilliammits_, with this Inscription vpon it, and the verses following hanging by on a table. "_Hic iacet vir nobilis D. Ioannes de Mandevile, Al;[4] D. ad Barbam miles; Dominus de Campdi: natus de Anglia, Medicine professor, deuotissimus orator: et bonorum largissimus pauperibus erogator qui toto quasi orbe lustrato. Leodij diem vite sue clausit extremum. Ann. Dom. M.C.C.C.lxxi. Mens. Nouemb. die xvi._ _ALIUD._ "'_Hoc iacet in tumulo, cui totus patria vino Orbis erat; totum quem peragrasse ferunt. Anglus Equesque fuit, nunc ille Britannus Vlysses Dicatur, Graio clarus Vlysse magis._ _Moribus, ingenio, candore, & sanguine clarus Et vere cultor Relligionis erat. Nomen si queras, est Mandevil, Indus, Arabsque Sat notum dicet finibus esse suis._' "The Churchmen will shew you here his kniues, the furniture of his horse, and his spurres, which he vsed in his trauells."