Anne lieathcote married the Hon. James de Lancey, son of Etienne de Lancey.

The De Lanceys, of Mamaroneck, are a branch of tlic ancient and honorable house of De Lanci, in France,*'^ springing froni Jean de Lanci. Ecuyer, Vjcomte of Laval and Nouvian, who was born in the latter part of the fifteentli ceritury, and died ^lay, 1525. The De Lancies were decreed to belong to the ancient nobility of France in the fourteenth century. Under Louis do Bourbon, Bishop and Duke of Laon, they held the hereditary fief of the Four banier of Laval;'^ they were also the lords of other lands^ such as Rarai, Nouvian, DLIaramont, Ribecoupt, Pimpre, St. Germain et Ruy, and hereditary castellans of the castle and domains of Bdthizv and V^erberie.=

t The French members of this family spelt llie last syliable of the surname with an i, in place of the ey.

b This fief was probably holden by the feudal service of the banner or lance -- hence the surname De Lanci. The ancient coat armor (borne by the Huguenot in 1687) was a shield of gold, bearing thereon a black eagle with its wings expanded, charged upon the breast with a blue escutcheon, containing three lances in pale. This coat was subsequently changed by tlie second English branch.

= L'armorial general d'France ; 2d Register, 2 vol. : King's Library, Paris. In front of the altar at the Church of Verberie, (department of Oise, P>ance,) thera is a tombstone erected to a member of this family, inscribed