Brutus Babington

On 6 July 1603, he complained to The 7th Earl of Shrewsbury that the chancellor of the diocese, Zachary Babington, had obstructed his suit and dispossessed him of his divinity lectureship.

His predecessor, George Montgomery, was considered disappointing in his dedication to missionary and pastoral work and translated to Meath in 1609.

In his own words, he "did not violently go to work with them nor urge them by authority, but endeavoured rather to persuade their consciences by arguments and reasons."

[8] Among Catholics his death was ascribed to a divine punishment as he suggested to Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe, to destroy the wooden statue of the Virgin at Agivey.

Bishop Knox himself took the statue from Agivey and brought it to Coleraine, where it was destroyed by fire in the town centre.