# 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](/source/Feoffees_for_Impropriations). He was minister at [All Hallows, Bread Street](/source/All_Hallows,_Bread_Street) in London, from 1611 to 1626.

## Life

He was born in [York](/source/York), according to the *Worthies* of [Thomas Fuller](/source/Thomas_Fuller). Fuller also says he gained the nickname “green-head” when a young preacher at [Paul's Cross](/source/Paul's_Cross), attacking inequality. He preached against the Lord Mayor, too, in 1603, when he was a lecturer at [St Augustine Watling Street](/source/St_Augustine_Watling_Street) in London.[1]

He was a scholar of [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College,_Cambridge) in 1587, and graduated M.A. there in 1594.[2] He studied with [William Whitaker](/source/William_Whitaker_(theologian)), and became a friend of [Thomas Gataker](/source/Thomas_Gataker). He was briefly a fellow of [Sidney Sussex College](/source/Sidney_Sussex_College).[3][4]

He became rector of [Standlake](/source/Standlake) in 1596.[5] He then was chaplain to [Sir Anthony Cope](/source/Sir_Anthony_Cope,_1st_Baronet).[3]

At All Hallows, he was the young [John Milton](/source/John_Milton)'s parish priest, and may have had a say in choosing his teachers. [Thomas Young](/source/Thomas_Young_(1587%E2%80%931655)) 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](/source/Nathaniel_Tovey).[7]

## 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

1. Richard L. Graves, *Society and Religion in Elizabethan England* (1981), p. 553.

1. Everett H. Emerson, *English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton* (1968), p. 187.

1. ["Gataker_Marriage_Duties_Biography"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160507121739/http://www.usask.ca/english/gataker/gat_bio.htm). Archived from [the original](https://www.usask.ca/english/gataker/gat_bio.htm) on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.

1. *Concise Dictionary of National Biography*

1. William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell, *Milton: A Biography* (1996), p. 12.

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

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