Herrera's other works are the following: _Historia de lo sucedido en Escocia e Inglaterra en quarenta y quatro anos que vivio la reyna Maria Estuarda_ (Madrid, 1589); _Cinco libros de la historia de Portugal, y conquista de las islas de los Acores, 1582-1583_ (Madrid, 1591); _Historia de lo sucedido en Francia, 1585-1594_ (Madrid, 1598); _Historia general del mundo del tiempo del rey Felipe II, desde 1559 hasta su muerte_ (Madrid, 1601-1612, 3 vols.); _Tratado, relacion, y discurso historico de los movimientos de Aragon_ (Madrid, 1612); _Comentarios de los hechos de los Espanoles, Franceses, y Venecianos en Italia, &c., 1281-1559_ (Madrid, 1624, seq.). See W. H. Prescott, _History of the Conquest of Mexico_, vol. ii. HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674), English poet, was born at Cheapside, London, and baptized on the 24th of August 1591. He belonged to an old Leicestershire family which had settled in London. He was the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, goldsmith, of the city of London, who died in 1592, under suspicion of suicide. The children were brought up by their uncle, Sir William Herrick, one of the richest goldsmiths of the day, to whom in 1607 Robert was bound apprentice. He had probably been educated at Westminster school, and in 1614 he proceeded to Cambridge; and it was no doubt during his apprenticeship that the young poet was introduced to that circle of wits which he was afterwards to adorn. He seems to have been present at the first performance of _The Alchemist_ in 1610, and it was probably about this time that Ben Jonson adopted him as his poetical "son." He entered the university as fellow-commoner of St John's College, and he remained there until, in 1616, upon taking his degree, he removed to Trinity Hall. A lively series of fourteen letters to his uncle, mainly begging for money, exists at Beaumanoir, and shows that Herrick suffered much from poverty at the university. He took his B.A. in 1617, and in 1620 he became master of arts. From this date until 1627 we entirely lose sight of him; it has been variously conjectured that he spent these years preparing for the ministry at Cambridge, or in much looser pursuits in London. In 1629 (September 30) he was presented by the king to the vicarage of Dean Prior, not far from Totnes in Devonshire. At Dean Prior he resided quietly until 1648, when he was ejected by the Puritans. The solitude there oppressed him at first; the village was dull and remote, and he felt very bitterly that he was cut off from all literary and social associations; but soon the quiet existence in Devonshire soothed and delighted him. He was pleased with the rural and semi-pagan customs that survived in the village, and in some of his most charming verses he has immortalized the morris-dances, wakes and quintains, the Christmas mummers and the Twelfth Night revellings, that diversified the quiet of Dean Prior. Herrick never