MASTER-GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE IN IRELAND. 291 
The witty, but sceptical, Lord Hervey makes passing mention of the 
Marquis de Montandre and his wife in his poetical epistle, written in 
1736 and addressed to the Queen :— 
** Who ev'ry Wednesday hear Montandre prate 
Of politics and maxims out of date, 
And with old fringes furbelow the State. 
As well that Ever Green his wife might boast 
The long fled bloom of a last century toast.”’ 
Being himself an unbeliever, Lord Hervey despised all Huguenot 
refugees whom he stigmatised as “ having more religion than sense,” 
and he never lost an opportunity of sneering at them. 
The Right Hon. Mary Ann, Marchioness of Montandre, died at her 
house in Lower Brook Street on February 5th, 1772, aged 89, and was 
buried on February 18th in Westminster Abbey. 
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