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From: "Jay S. Webb" <>
Subject: Re: [WEBB-L] Re: William Webb CT to NY
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:59:33 -0400


Nancy,

I think you are a descendant of Sir Henry Webb. I am sure we have other
people on the list from that family.

Jay
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Sir Henry Webb was usher in the Privy Council of Catherine Parr, Queen
Regent of Britain in the 16th century. Parr, Catherine (1512-48), 6th Queen
of Henry VIII of England; tactful, kindly woman to whose influence her
stepchildren, the future sovereigns Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, owed
much.

Among the few existing documents connected with the regency of Catherine
Parr, While Henry VIII was conducting the seige of Boulogne A.D. 1544, there
is in the Crotonain Collections a letter to her court headed: "Katherine,
Queen Regent, K.P. in favor of her trusty and well beloved servant, Henry
Webb, gentleman, usher of her Privy Chamber".

This letter is in regard to some grants and privileges to Henry Webb, but
wihch have not been fulfilled. It concludes thus: "we most heartily desire
and pray you to be favorable to him at this our earnest request. Given under
my Hand and Signet, at my Lord, the King's Majesty's Honor of Hampton Court,
the 23d of July and the 36th of his Highness most nob
Reign."

http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/e/b/Jay-S-Webb/
http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/jwebb/webb.htm
http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/jwebb/webb2.ht

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