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Subject: HERRICK
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 15:10:04 +0000


The following is gleaned from a biographical sketch of Sir William
Herrick in a little book entitled "Famous London Merchants," by H.R. Fox
Bourne. [New York; Harper & Brothers, 1869.]:..."Of his son Henry
Heyrick, Sir William Heyrick wrote thus: "Thursday, 16th of August,
1604, my wife were brought a bead of a fifthe sonne; Sir David Murray,
Mr. John Spilman, and my Lady Aston, his gossips. He is nursed at
Thissilworth, at 2s.6d. a week. His name is commanded by Prince Henry to
be Henry; and Sir John Spilman would need have him John. And that he
was named Henry." Lady Aston was wife to Sir Roger Aston, master of the
great wardrobe of his majesty.
According to the Herrick Genealogy, no other Henry is found on
the English pedigrees of the time. My uncle visited Beau Manor a few
years ago and I am looking for the material he brought back. It might
shed some light on this matter.

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