Leland was traditionally thought to have been born in about 1506, but as he claimed to be slightly older than his friend William Paget[لغات أخرى]، جيمس كارلي argues for c.1503 as his date of birth. See J. P. Carley, "John Leland (1503?–18 April 1552)", in D. A. Richardson (ed.), Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers Second Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 136 (Detroit, 1994), pp. 224–9.
