282 MASTER-GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE IN IRELAND. 
Lieut.-Colonel in Colonel Francois du Cambon’s Regiment of Foot. 
His first two commissions are thus officially'entered in the War Office 
MS. Commission books :— 
“Francis de Montandre, Hsq. to be Captain of a company 
whereof Lieut.-Colonel James Montant was Captain in 
Colonel Francis de Cambon’s Regiment of Foot, dated 
15th February, 169%.” . 
“Brevet for Francis de Montandre, Esq. to command and take 
his rank as Lieut.-Colonel of Foot, dated Kensington, 15th 
February, 1695.” 
It would seem from these commissions that the future Fuield- 
Marshal dropped his surname of Rochefoucauld on entering the 
British army and adopted in its place the name of his father’s 
marquisate. In 1702, on the death of his elder brother, Isaac Charles, 
third Marquis, he assumed the title of Marquis de Montandre by which 
he was henceforth known. 
In August 1692, Cambon’s Regiment, which had done good service 
in Ireland, sailed for Flanders with 14 other regiments and arrived at 
Ostend 1st September. On the death of Colonel Cambon in this year 
the regiment was given to Count Marton, afterwards created Harl of 
Lifford, and served with King William in all his campaigns in Flanders 
until the Peace of Ryswick. We have no record of Montandre’s services 
during this period, but from the following curious notices in several 
contemporary London newspapers it appears that 16 French Protestant 
officers, and six men, of Colonel Cambon’s Regiment were taken 
prisoners by a French ship when on their way to England and carried 
to Dunkirk, where they suffered great privations. 
Post-Boy, March 18th-20th, 1697.—“I am credibly informed 
that Sir W™ Jennings,! who is now with King James in 
France, has writ a letter to a Person that is in a consider- 
able position im the Government offering fer Mr. Jennings, 
his son, who has been a long time in Newgate under sentence 
of death, to discharge 16 French Protestant officers and six 
soldiers of Colonel Cambon’s Regiment, who were taken on 
their voyage from Flandersto Hnglandand carried to Dunkirk, 
and I hear the same was readily agreed to and that Mr. 
Jennings was to be sent over to France forthwith in ex- 
change for these prisoners.” 
Post-Man, January 30th.—“ There is advice that the French 
Protestant officers who are prisoners in Dunkirk have been 
forced to cast lots who should go to the gallies, the French 
King having ordered it so to gratify the vengeance of a 
certain abdicated Prince.” 
In 1698 Lord Lifford’s, late Cambon’s, Regiment was quartered in 
1 A captain in the navy who accompanied James II. into France. His son was captured on 
board a French privateer fighting against his own countrymen, was brought to England, tried and 
condemned to death. We read in the Post Boy of July 22nd, 1699, that ‘‘ Mr. Jennings, having 
obtained His Majesty’s most gracious pardon, pleaded the same at Doctors Commons according to 
custom.” 
