A NOTE ON ROBERT HERICK, AUTHOR OF "HESPERIDES."

In the summer of 1844, I visited Dean Prior in company with my brother, in order to ascertain if we could add any new fact to the scanty accounts of the *Life of Herrick* recorded by his biographers. The events of his life have been related by Dr. Drake, (*Literary Hours*, vol. iii., 1st edit. 1798.—3rd edit. 1804), by Mr. Campbell, by Dr. Nott (*Select Poems from the Hesperides*, &c. Bristol, 1810,) by a writer in the *Quarterly Review*, vol. iv. 1810, by Mr. Wilmott in his elegantly written *Lives of Sacred Poets*, vol. i., 1834, and in the memoirs prefixed to the recent editions of *Herrick…