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Rh 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. The marriage was not unfruitful. A William Herrick was baptized at St. Vedast's, Foster Lane, November 24, 1585; Martha, January 22, 1586; Mercy, December 22, 1586; Thomas, May 7, 1588; Nicholas, April 22, 1589; Anne, July 26, 1590; and Robert himself, August 24, 1591.

Fifteen 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. In the will he de scribed himself as "of perfect memorye in sowle, but sicke in bodye ". Two days after its execution he was buried, having died, not from disease, but from a fall from an upper window. His death had so much the appear ance of self-destruction that 220 had to be paid to the High Almoner, Dr. Fletcher, Bishop