Stock, Richard, an eminent Puritan divine, was born in the city of York, and was educated in St. John's College, Cambridge. He took his tirst degree in arts there, and in 1595 was passed .\.M. at Oxford. Leav- ing the luiiversity, he became domestic chaplain, tirst to Sir Antliouy C^ope, of Ashby, Nortliampton. aiul then to Lady Lane, of liourlon-on-tiie- Water, (ilouccster- shire. Soon afterwards he went to London and officiated as assistant to the vicar of All-Hallows, Hrcadstreet, for sixteen years, and succeeded him in that living. He died .\pril 20, 1626. His works are. Doctrine and Use of Repentance (Loud. 1610. 8vo): — Sermon at the Funer- al of John, Lord Harrington, etc. (1614, 8vo) : — Stock of Divine Knowledge (Loud. 1641, Au>):— Truth's Cham- pion, etc. : — Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachi (edited by Torshell, 1641, 4to). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. V.
Stock, Simon, an English monk, who became gen- eral of the Carmelites, and is known as an ascetic writer.
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He died in 12C5. lie is said to have founded the Broth- erhtxKl of the Scapulary in honor of the Virgin Mary.
Stockdale, Pf.iuivat.. an English clergyman and writer. «.is Ixirn ai Hranxton, Oct. •.'(">. 17:50. He was educated at Alnwick and Ikrwick.and afterwards (1754) entered the University of St. Andrew's, which he left to accept a suhlicntenancy in the army. Deciding to en- ter the ministry, he was ordained deacon at Michaelmas ill I7ol>. and became one of Dr. Sharp's assistants in the curacy of Duke's I'lace, Aldgatc. After this he fell into a rambling life, and in 17ti7 went to Italy and resided for two vears in the town of Villafranca, where, he says, lie read" and wrote assiduously. In 1775 he obtained the othcc of chaplain on the ship Resolution, which he retained three years. He became curate of Hinc- worth, Hertfordshire, in 1780; and also took priest's or- ders. In 1783 lord-chancellor Thurlow presented him with the living of Lesbury, Northumberland, to which the duke of Northumberland added that of Long Hough- ton ill the same county. He accepted in 1787 an invi- tation to spend some time at Tangier, and in 1790 re- tumeil from the Mediterranean. He died at his vicar- age, Sept. 11. 1811. The works of Jlr. Stockdale were chietlv poetical; but he also wrote, Treatise on Educa- tion (1782, 8vo) ■.—Sermons (178-t, 1791, 8vo). See Al- libone, J^ict of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v,
Stockfeld, JoiiANN. a missionary among the Jews, was lH>rii Dec. 14, 17'JtJ, at Merbeck, near Mors, in Klien- isli Trussifi. Having been duly prepared by his broth- er, he entered, in 1824, the Hebrew College at London, to tit himself the better for the work among the Jews. In the following year he was appointed missionary by the London Society, and labored most successfully in Holland. Khenish Prussia, Westphalia, Bavaria, and oth- er places. In 183(5 he was ordained, and settled first at Brussels, then at Cologne, and lastly at Kreuznach, where for twenty-eight years he was enal)led to prosecute his chosen work among God's ancient people. Here he also established an auxiliary society in connection with that at Cologne, or the Rhenish Jewish Missionary' So- ciety ; and, in order to keep up a lively interest in be- half of Israel, he had a monthly meeting in his own house, where pious Christians, both clergy and laymen, attended in numljers. Stockfeld died Dec. 17, 18(59, af- ter having most diligently labored as a missionary for more than forty-three years. See (London) Jewish In- telli'/i'nre, Feb. 18(59 ; Missionshlutt des rheinisch-westphd- lisch'H i'lrein.i/lir Israel, Jan. and I'"eb. 1870. (B. P.)
Stockilett, NiKi.s J. CiiR., the apostle of the Lap- landers, was Iwrii Jan. 11, 1787, at Frederickstad. He studied law at Copenhagen in 1803, entered the mil- itary', was a[)pointed lieutenant in 1809, and after the battle of Schcstadt he was made caiitain. In 1823 he resigned his military position and ijetook himself to the study of theology at the universities of Upsal and Christiania. In 1825 he wa.s ordained, and then com- menced studying the language of the Laplanders, thus laying the foundation for a popular Lappish literature. Ill 1M39 he resigned his ministerial position, and travel- led tlirniigh Nnrway, Sweden, and F'inland. He died at Standefjcird, April 2(5, 18(;(). Besides a Primer, a (Intni- nuir, a Jiilih- lliilory, and (.'(>nlrilmtio)is In l/te Kno/rlcdi/i' of the /.ajilaiiduih J^anf/uai/e, he translated the New Test. for the Lapps, and thus immortali/.ed his name. Sec the Jiei/rwihitrijer C()nver.iiili(m.i- Jjfj-ihm, 8, v.; Valil, Liip/itrne op den lappske Mixnon (Copenhagen, 18(5(5) ; Piper, F.rauyel. Knlfiider, 18(17, p. 213 wj. Sec Qf aman Vkiwion, (B. p.)
Stocking, a covering for the leg or foot. Bishop'* ancl prelates wear odicial sIo(;king9 of cloib of golcl or purjile, wliicii practice has lieen ni)|>roved by local councils both in Italy and Kiiglaiid.
Stocking, Davis, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born at Haddam, Conn., Sept. 10, 1810. He received license to preach in April, 1830, and in May following was received on trial into the New York Con- ference, and continued to be a member of it until his death. In April, 1857, he was attacked by pleurisy, which so shattered his constitution that he was unable longer to preach or attend to public duties. He re- moved to Sing Sing, where he was attacked by an ag- gravated form of neuralgia, from which death alone re- lieveil him, Dec. 11, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1859, p. 149.