In November 1562, 'being then of immature age,' he was matriculated fellow- commoner of Peterhouse, of which college his grandfather, Edward, first baron North [q. v.], was a benefactor.
On 19 April 1572 the senate passed a grace that his six years' study in humanioribus literis might suffice for his inception in arts, and on 6 May he was admitted M.A.
On Friday, after the nativity of St. John the Baptist, 1572, he was made a free burgess and elected an alderman of Cambridge.
He may be the Mr. North who visited Poland in 1581 (Dee, Diary, p. 19), and who, after returning in 1582, had an audience of the queen, who had been sumptuously entertained at Kirtling in 1578.
Webbe appealed to Leicester as supreme governor, but he strangely decided that, as both were Englishmen, the matter was in the queen's cognisance.
He went a third time to the Netherlands, and joined the enemy in 1597, 'for religion's sake only;' but sent information to his father of certain plots formed against the queen by Thomas Arundell, who had been created a count of the empire.
; Roger Gilbert, the navigator; and Mary, wife of Sir Francis Coningsby of South Mimms, Hertfordshire.