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

du Koi tue a la bataille de Mai plnqu»t. La dite Damede la Billarderie est deoedee la 25 Juin, 1724. agiee de 81 ana Priez pour sou ame

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crests j and though not registered in the English College of Arms, they appear as so modified in most English heraldic works, and have since been so borne in America, notably on the official seal of his son James de Lancey, as Lt. Governor and Captain-General of New York. They are thus blazoned: -- Arms; Azure, a tilting lance proper, point upward with a pennon argent bearing a cross gules fringed and floating to the right, debruised of a fess, or Crest ; A sinister arm in armor embowed, the hand grasping a tilting lance, pennon floating, both proper. Motto ; Certum voto pete finem.

The name of tins family, anciently spelled " Land," and later " Lancy/' in France, was anglicised by Etienne de Lancy on being denizenized a British subject in 1686, after which time he always wrote his name Stephen de Lancey -- thus inserting an ue" in the final sylable. The "de" is the ordinary French prefix, denoting nobility.