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 and Waterford between 1806 and 1813 to his son Henry in Dublin, and give interesting glimpses of life in an episcopal palace in a remote part of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. A manuscript autobiography belongs to the family of the bishop's second wife.



STOCK, RICHARD (1569?–1626), puritan divine, was born at York about 1569. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in his nineteenth year, was chosen scholar on 10 Nov. 1587, and, after graduating B.A. in 1590 and M.A. in 1594, would have been elected fellow had there been a vacancy. He was a favourite with the master, [q. v.] He began to preach in 1594. On 15 July 1595 he was incorporated M.A. of Oxford. He was to have been one of the original fellows of Sidney-Sussex College, but left the university soon after the college building was begun (20 May 1596). He was rector of Standlake, Oxfordshire, in 1596. After acting as domestic chaplain successively to Sir Anthony Cope (1548?–1614) [see under, (d. 1551)], and to Lady Lane of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, he went up to London, and was appointed lecturer at St. Augustine's, Watling Street. Soon afterwards he became curate to Thomas Early at St. Mildred's, Bread Street, and, on Early's death in 1604, became curate to Thomas Edmonds, B.D., rector of Allhallows, Bread Street. Edmonds was at the time too infirm to do duty; he died in 1610, and on 8 March 1611 Stock succeeded him in the rectory. [q. v.] was his curate in 1623–6. Both as a parochial clergyman and as a public preacher Stock maintained a high reputation. As a young man he had dealt, in a sermon at St. Paul's Cross (1606), with the inequalities in the incidence of the city rates, which pressed heavily on the poor, and was decried as ‘a greenhead.’ Towards the end of his life he reverted to the topic in a sermon at the election of lord mayor, remarking that ‘a grayhead spake now what a greenhead had done formerly.’ He was active in promoting the observance of the Lord's day. In preaching he made more use of quotations from the fathers than his puritan hearers were accustomed to. He died on 20 April 1626, and was buried in his church, where a monument (destroyed in the fire of 1666) was erected to his memory by his parishioners on 28 Jan. 1629. His portrait was three times engraved; he wore a moustache and square beard, and dressed in skullcap and ruff. His wife, by whom he had three daughters, survived him many years.

He published single sermons, 1606–14, including a funeral sermon for, second lord Harington of Exton [q. v.] Posthumous were: Brook distinguishes him from a contemporary Richard Stock, rector of Kirk Heaton, Yorkshire, and founder of a school there.
 * 1) ‘A learned … Commentary upon … Malachy,’ 1641, fol. Appended is an ‘Exercitation’ on Malachi by  [q. v.]
 * 2) ‘A Stock of Divine Knovvledge. … Description of the Divine Nature,’ 1641, 4to.



STOCK, SIMEON (1165?-1265), Carmelite. [See .]

STOCKDALE, JOHN (1749?–1814), publisher, born in Cumberland about 1749, was brought up, it is said, as a blacksmith, then became valet to John Astley of Dukinfield, Cheshire, and eventually removed, about 1780, to London, where he was engaged as porter to [q. v.], the publisher. When Almon retired from business in favour of [q. v.], Stockdale opened an opposition shop; and, ‘being a man of natural parts, he soon became conspicuous in business in spite of much eccentricity of conduct and great coarseness of manners’ (Gent. Mag. June 1815). Among the numerous works bearing his name as publisher are: Ferguson's ‘Roman Republic,’ 1783, an edition of Shakespeare's ‘Dramatic Works,’ 1784, Edwards's ‘History of the West Indies,’ Chalmers's edition of Defoe's ‘History of the Union,’ Phillips's ‘Voyage to Botany Bay, and Dr. Johnson's Works,’ 1787 (vols. 12 and 13 of which Stockdale edited). He also issued ‘Debates in Parliament,’ 1784–90, an edition of ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ and Aikin's ‘Country round Manchester,’ 1795, originally intended to be merely an account of the neighbourhood of Mottram-in-Longdendale, with which Stockdale had personal acquaintance. In 1788 he published the Rev. John