1679. third Marquis, made a page to the King in 1679, who, died shortly after, unmarried, and Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lancy, who succeeded his brother as fourth Marquis and died unmarried

1680. not long after. Both these brothers died in 1680 ; and with them ended the males of this branch of the family. Their sisters were five, Henriette, wife of the Marquis de Crevecaeur; Catharine, wife of the Seigneur de la Billarderie ; 6 Francoise, died unmarried ; Annette, died unmarried , and Marie Luce, wife of the Comte de Nonant, who died 16th March, 1743, aged eighty.

The Arms are blazoned in the "Armorial General de la France." thus, "Armes; or, a l'aigle eployee de sable, charge sur l'estomac d'un ecusson d'azur, a trois lances d'or, posees en pal, pointes en haut." In English, Arms : Or, an eagle wings displayed, sable, charged on the breast with a shield azure, three tilting lances or, in pale, points upward.

On becoming a British subject, Etienne (or Stephen) de Lancey modified these arms which had originated before the use of crests in heraldry, to make them more like those of English families, most of which have

a Le Palais d'LHonneur, Paris, 1004, page 312, family "d'Angennes." b In front of the altar at the Cluircii of Vrebcrie, (department of Oise, France,) there is a tombstone erected to this lady, iuscribed :-- -

D. O. M. let repose Haute etpuissante Dame Madame Fkancoisb de Lanci KARAi,dame des Tern s et Seigneuries, d'lIaramou% Ribeconrt, Pimpre St. Germain et Kuy, en partie chatelaine Hereditalre et engagiste des Domaines de Hiithizy et Verberle, possides par ses peres depuisplus den x cents a 11s veuve de Messiiv Barthclemt de Flahaui fhevelier seigneur de la Billarderie Maitre de camp de Cavalerie, exempt des ganles du corps