In front of the altar at the Church of Verberie, (department of Oise, France,) ther^ is a tombstone erected to a member of this family, inscribed

D. O. M.

Ici repose

Haute et puissante Dame

Madame FRANqoisE de Lanci Rarai, dame

des Terres et Seigneuries, d'Haramont, Ribecoupt,

Pimpre, St. Germain et Ruy, en partie Chatelaine

Hereditaire et engagiste des Domaines de Bothizy

et Verberie, possides par ses peres depuis plus

decent aus veuve de Messire Barth61emi de

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29S HISTORY OF THE

The only son of Jean de Lanci, Vicomte of Laval and Nouvian, was Charles de Lanci, Ecuyer,^ also Yicomte of Laval, (fcc. This individual (who held the fief of the Fonr banier of Laval) married Marie Yilliers, by whom he left issue two sons, Charles de Lanci, Ecuyer, Yicomte of Laval, living in 1534, and Christopher de Lanci, ancestor of the Lords of Rarai.b From a branch of this family came Elienne or Stephen De Lancey, a native of Caen, in Normandy.

During the troublesome times which preceded the edict of NantZj the De Lancies of Caen appear to have suffered severely for their devotion to the Hugnenot cause. In 1681 Stephen de Lancey was one of those who fled from France, " to escape the tyranny and bigotry of Louis XIV. He appears to have been aided in his flight by a Protestant mother, who not only gave him the passports of education for his safety, but jewels, which enabled him in Holland to procure what was necessary to appear in New York as a wealthy merchant." *' In the year 1724 (says the historian Dunlap) Governor Burnet was involved in a dispute with Mr. Etienne de Lancey, who is represented as a rich man, and the principal benefactor of the French Church established in New York by the refugees who fled from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz.