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There must have been considerable communication between the refugees in Holland and members of the family in England. For we have the account of a Bernard Mandeville,M.D., who was born at Dordrecht abouit 1665, and settled as a physician in London, where he died January 21, 1733. He was the author of a number of works in prose and poetry.
It is said that on a bronzed gate in the wall, in the city of Rouen, the ancient capital of Normandy, France, is an inscription that gives facts in the history of one Mandeville: some high office held, some deeds of valor done. I wish that a copy of it might be had.
I have here (showing it) a copy of the coat of arms of the Mandeville family in Holland, obtained by the late Mr. George A. Sandham, of New York. His mother, Mrs. S.A. Sandhamone of whose ancestors belonged to the New York branch of the family, kindly permitted me to make this copy. The ground is purple. The figure is in silver adn red. The Griffin here depicted was a fabulous creature, with the body and legs of a lion and the back and wings, and frequently the feet, of an eagle. Its significance in heraldric language is: watchfulness, swiftness and strength; all pre-eminently Dutch characteristics.
The ancestor of the family in this country was Gillis (or Yellis) Jansen De Mandeville. In the days of persecution he fled, it is said, from Normandy, France to Holland. There he married, about 1640, a Dutch girl, Elsie or Eliza Hendrick.
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