Cui ad pectus lunula rubea, in campo caeruleo,
quem limbus ambiret denticulatus ex auro, eius nobis ostendebat & cultros,
ephippiaque, & calcaria, quibus vsum fuisse asserebat in peragrando toto
fere terrarum orbe, vt clarius eius testatur itinerarium, quod typis etiam
excusum passim habetur."[37]
Dr. Warner writes in the National Biography:
"There is abundant proof that the tomb of the author of the Travels was
to be seen in the Church of the Guillemins or Guillelmites at Liege down
to the demolition of the building in 1798. The fact of his burial there,
with the date of his death, 17th November, 1372, was published by Bale in
1548 (Summarium f. 149 b), and was confirmed independently by Jacob
Meyer (Annales rerum Flandric. 1561, p. 165) and Lud. Guicciardini.
(Paesi Bassi, 1567, p. 281.)"
In a letter dated from Bodley's Library, 17th March, 1884, to The
Academy, 12th April, 1884, No. 623, Mr. Edward B. Nicholson drew
attention to the abstract from Jean d'Ontremeuse, and came to the
conclusion that the writer of Mandeville's relation was a profound liar,
and that he was the Liege Professor of Medicine, John of Burgundy or a la
Barbe. He adds: "If, in the matter of literary honesty, John a Beard was
a bit of a knave, he was very certainly no fool."
On the other hand, M. Leopold Delisle,[38] has shown that two
manuscripts, Nouv.
