Anglorum speculum, or, The worthies of England in church and state alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained : wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age : also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

Since the Reformation.

Richard Stock, bred in St. Johns-Colledge in Cam∣bridge, was Minister of All-hallowes Breadstreet in London, by the space of 32 years, till the day of his death; where (if in Health) he omitted not to Preach twice every Lords day, with the approbation of all that were Judicious and Religious. Dr. Davenant was his constant Auditor, whilst lying at London. He prevailed with some Companies, to put off their wont∣ed Festivals from Mondays to Tuesdays, that the Lords day might not be abused, by the preparation for such Entertainments. Though he Preached often in Neigh∣bouring Churches, he never neglected his own, being wont to protest, That it was more comfortable to him to win one of his own Parish, then twenty others. Preach∣ing at St. Pauls Cross, when young, it was ill taken that he reproved the inequality of Rates in the City,

(burdening the Poor to ease the Rich) and he was called a Green-Head for his Pains. But being put up in his latter dayes, to Preach on the Lord Mayors E∣lection, and falling on the same Subject, he told them, That a Gray-Head spake now what a Groen-Head said before. He dyed April 20. 1626.