![]() Herrick's biographers have not failed to vituperate the Bishop for his avarice, but dues allowed by law are hardly to be abandoned because a baby of fifteen months is destined to become a brilliant poet, and no other exceptional circumstances are alleged. Fletcher, Bishop of Bristol, in satisfaction of his official claim to the goods and chattels of suicides. His death had so much the appear ance of self-destruction that 220 had to be paid to the High Almoner, Dr. Two days after its execution he was buried, having died, not from disease, but from a fall from an upper window. In the will he de scribed himself as "of perfect memorye in sowle, but sicke in bodye ". Vedast's, Foster Lane, NovemMartha, JanuMercy, DecemThomas, Nicholas, ApAnne, Jand Robert himself, August 24, 1591.įifteen months after the poet's birth, on November 7, 1592, Nicholas Herrick made his will, estimating his property as worth 3000, and devising it, as to one-third to his wife, and as to the other two-thirds to his chil dren in equal shares. ![]() This John's second son, Nicholas, migrated to London, became a goldsmith in Wood Street, Cheapside, and, according to a licence issued by the Bishop of London, December 8, 1582, married Julian, daughter of William Stone, sister of Anne, wife of Sir Stephen Soame, Lord Mayor of London in 1598. At the beginning of the sixteenth century we find a branch of it settled in Leicester itself, where John Eyrick, the poet's grandfather, was admitted a freeman in 1535, and afterwards acted as Mayor. The recital of the bare outline need detain us but a few minutes: only the least imaginative of readers will have any difficulty in filling it in from the poems themselves.įrom early in the fourteenth century onwards we hear of the family of Eyrick or Herrick at Stretton, in Leicestershire. Just such a bare outline of his life has come down to us as is sufficient to explain the allusions in his poems, and, on the other hand, there is no temptation to substitute chatter about his relations with Julia and Dianeme for enjoyment of his delightful verse. Lovers of Herrick are almost ideally fortunate. Of the lives of many poets we know too much of some few too little.
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