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.

The governor took part with Monsieur Le Ronx, in opposition to the clergymen upheld by De Lancey and a majority of the congregation ; and M. de Lancey, being returned as a member of Assembly, Burnet refused to administer the oath to him, upon the ground that he was not a subject of the crown. De Lancey replied that he was made a denizen in England, " in a patent of denization granted in the reign of James II., and under

Flahant Chevalier seigneur de la Billarderie Maitre

de camp de Cavalerie, exempt des gardes du corps

du Roi iu6 a la bataille de Mai plaquet. La dite

Dame de la Bellarderie est decedee le 25 Juin, 1724,

agee de 61 ans

Priez pour sou ame.

» The French Ecuyer denotes a gentleman who possesses coat armor.

t L'armorial General du France, 2 Register, 2 vols. King's Lib. Paris.

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