Richard Stock (1569 – 1626) was an English clergyman and one of the Puritan founders of the Feoffees for Impropriations. He was minister at

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in London, from 1611 to 1626.

Life

He was born in

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, according to the ''Worthies'' of

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. Fuller also says he gained the nickname “green-head” when a young preacher at

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, attacking inequality. He preached against the Lord Mayor, too, in 1603, when he was a lecturer at St Augustine Watling Street in London. He was a scholar of

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in 1587, and graduated M.A. there in 1594. He studied with William Whitaker, and became a friend of Thomas Gataker. He was briefly a fellow of

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.Everett H. Emerson, ''English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton'' (1968), p. 187. He became rector of Standlake in 1596. He then was chaplain to Sir Anthony Cope. At All Hallows, he was the young

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's parish priest, and may have had a say in choosing his teachers. Thomas Young may have been recommended by Stock, or Gataker. Later Stock may have had a hand in choosing Milton's replacement college tutor

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.William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell, ''Milton: A Biography'' (1996), p. 31.

Works

*''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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stock, Richard 1569 births 1626 deaths 17th-century English Puritan ministers Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 16th-century English clergy Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge