Sir William Herrick or Hericke (1562 – 2 March 1653) was an English jeweller, courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622.
[3] Herrick was also a moneylender and in a few years he had made himself a fortune and was able to purchase Beau Manor Park from the Earl of Essex, and obtained a right to arms.
The remaining jewels had been transferred from the keeping of Mrs Mary Radcliffe, former gentlewoman to Queen Elizabeth, to the Countess of Suffolk.
He had kept them at Westminster Palace on the instructions of Queen Elizabeth, and James and his courtiers sent some to Spilman and Herrick for valuation, with an ivory coffer, and a "great rich glass set with diamonds rubies emeralds and pearls, made in the form of a woman upon a pillar or case holding a clock with diverse motions" worth £2,739 brought from the Tower of London.
[10] In 1624 Lionel Cranfield, the Lord Treasurer, appointed Philip Jacobson as a goldsmith to the king, noting that George Heriot was dead and Spilman and Herrick rarely did any work.
[11] Herrick, with the other royal jewellers Abraham Harderet, George Heriot and John Spilman, joined the funeral procession of Anna of Denmark in 1619.