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“ Agur’s prayer on the Christian Choice, 1621,” must have 
sounded strange to the ears of those who saw every one 
striving by flattery or boon companionship to gain emolu- 
ments or titles. 
_ “Catalogus  protestantium’’—-a survey of Protestant 
religion long before Luther’s day, published in 1624, was not 
written in a hurry. The idea had been present to his mind 
long before. On the accession of Charles I., Webbe was 
appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the King, and must have 
beer. in constant attendance, as he baptised, in 1629, Charles 
James, the first child of Charles and Henrietta Maria, who 
only lived a few hours. 
Of his work in Bath, we have no record, but know he 
preached the Lady Huntley three sermons in 1630, 1632, 1633, 
1634, for each of which series he received {1, according to 
custom. 
Perhaps he and his son Theophilus, together with a Mr. 
Ayers, who is mentioned in 1630, shared the work of the two 
parishes between them. 
In the calendar of State papers, on September 22nd, 1634, 
the Archbishop of Canterbury writes to the Clerk of the 
Signet attending, ordering him to prepare a bill for the King’s 
signature, containing a grant of the Bishopric of Limerick to 
George Webb, D.D., signed—W. Cant. 
And on October 6th (Hampton Court) the King to the Lord 
Deputy, ordering him to appoint Dr. Webb, Bishop of 
Limerick. 
Webbe was consecrated in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, 
18th December, 1634, the Corporation of Bath having 
presented him with his robes; £8 2s. 8d. being paid for the 
“Satten and lawne,”’ and his son Theophilus was appointed 
to the living, which he held until 1638. For his crest as 
Bishop he assumed a cross between four falcons. 
He held the See of Limerick until 1641, but I can find no 
entries relating to him in the Irish State papers. 
He died of gaol fever in 1641, having been thrown into 
Limerick Castle by the Papist rebels, who allowed his body 
to be buried in St. Munchin’s Churchyard, in Limerick, but 
within a few hours of the burial the grave was desecrated by 
robbers searching for any rings which might have been buried 
with the deceased Prelate. 
