Richard Stock
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Richard Stock (1569 – 1626) was an English clergyman and one of the Puritan founders of the Feoffees for Impropriations. He was minister at All Hallows, Bread Street in London, from 1611 to 1626.
Life
[edit]He was born in York, according to the Worthies of Thomas Fuller. Fuller also says he gained the nickname “green-head” when a young preacher at Paul's Cross, attacking inequality. He preached against the Lord Mayor, too, in 1603, when he was a lecturer at St Augustine Watling Street in London.[1]
He was a scholar of St John's College, Cambridge in 1587, and graduated M.A. there in 1594.[2] He studied with William Whitaker, and became a friend of Thomas Gataker. He was briefly a fellow of Sidney Sussex College.[3][4]
He became rector of Standlake in 1596.[5] He then was chaplain to Sir Anthony Cope.[3]
At All Hallows, he was the young John Milton's parish priest, and may have had a say in choosing his teachers. Thomas Young may have been recommended by Stock, or Gataker.[6] Later Stock may have had a hand in choosing Milton's replacement college tutor Nathaniel Tovey.[7]
Works
[edit]- Ten Answers to Edmund Campion, the Jesuit (1606), English translation of a Latin work of William Whitaker
- The Doctrine and Use of Repentance (1610) sermons
- A Commentary upon the Prophecy of Malachi (1641)
- A Stock of Divine Knowledge: Being a lively description of the Divine Nature. Or, The Divine Essence, Attributes, and Trinity particularly explained and profitably applied. London, 1641
- The Church’s Lamentation for the Loss of the Godly: A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Lord Harington on Micah 7:1,2
- A Sermon Preached at Paul’s Cross, November 1606, on Isaiah 9:14-16.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Richard L. Graves, Society and Religion in Elizabethan England (1981), p. 553.
- ^ "Stock, Richard (STK590R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Everett H. Emerson, English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton (1968), p. 187.
- ^ "Gataker_Marriage_Duties_Biography".
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell, Milton: A Biography (1996), p. 12.
- ^ William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell, Milton: A Biography (1996), p. 31.