Background
He was born in York, according to the Worthies of Thomas Fuller.
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Richard Stock
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Career
He was minister at All Hallows, Bread Street in London, from 1611 to 1626. 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 Street Augustine Watling Street in London.
He was a scholar of Street John"s College, Cambridge in 1587, and graduated Master of Arts there in 1594.
He was briefly a fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He became rector of Standlake in 1596.
He then was chaplain to Sir Anthony Cope. 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.
Later Stock may have had a hand in choosing Milton"s replacement college tutor Nathaniel Tovey.
