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Robert Herrick (baptized 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English poet. He took holy orders in 1623, and was vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire from 1629 to 1647 and from 1662 until his death.
Robert Herrick in 1632[]
In February of 1635, Robert Herrick went to Grantville to use the libraries for six months, and accepted a temporary position as minister of the town's recently-reopened Episcopal church to support himself while there. He would have preferred not to have needed to do that, as he did not care for the mundane details of having a parish, and disliked the social obligations that went with it. He kept that to himself, just as he kept his distaste for Grantville's decidedly non-English customs to himself, though he made it clear that he would be leaving in August whether or not a replacement for him had been found. Still, he appreciated up-time dentistry, and was quite taken with the content of the hymnals, much of which had been translated from German in the 19th century.
In late August of 1635, Herrick left Grantville, just as his replacement William Barneby arrived. After arriving in Brussels, Herrick found that Archbishop William Laud had decided to appoint him as the Anglican bishop for the United States of Europe, with his seat in Magdeburg. This did not sound too bad to him, as Magdeburg was one of Europe's cultural centers. However, he also found that it would require a considerable amount of schmoozing. Even worse, from Herrick's perspective as a confirmed bachelor, Archbishop Laud's interpretation of the requirements for bishops held that they had to be married.
While Herrick self-identified as one of the "Sons of Ben", it is not known if he was the source of the crate of up-time items that was sent to Ben Jonson in 1635.