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conscience tells you that your good works will never merit heaven ) . Next , I preach , that , as you are King of France , there is no man on earth above you ; but these jnen , whom you hear , subject you to the Pope of Rome , which I will never do . " Pleased
with this reply , Lewis said to him , He bien ! vous striezmon Ministre ; and , addressing him by the title of Father , assured him of his protection . And he was as good as his
word : for St . Jean D D''Anselv be > word ; for St . Jean Angely being reduced by the royal forces in 1621 , the King gave directions to De Vitry , one of his generals , to take care of his Minister ; in con .
sequence of which Welch and his family were conveyed , at his Majesty ' s expense , to Rochelle . Having lost his health , and the
physicians informing him that the only prospect which he had of recovering it was by returning to his native country , Mr . Welch ventured , in l 622 , to come to London . But
his own sovereign was incapable of treating him with the generosity which he had experienced from the French monarch ; and , dreading the influence of a man who
was far gone with a consumption , he absolutely refused to give him permission to return to Scotland . Mrs . Welch , by means of some of her mother ' s relations at Court , obtained access to James , and pe- » titioned him to grant this favour to her husband . The following singular conversation took place on that occasion . His Majesty asked " who was her father . She
replied , " Mr . Knox / ' " Knox and Welch , ' exclaimed he ; " the devil never made such a match as that . " « It is right like , Sir , " said she , < 4 for we never asked his fldvice . " He asked her how many
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children her father had left , and if they were lads or lasses .. She said , Three ; and they were all lasses . u God be thanked ! ' * cried the Kingjifting up both his hands ; ** for an they had been three lads , I had never enjoyed my three
kingdoms in peace . ' * She again urged her request , that he would give her husband his native air . " Give him his native air ! " replied the King , " Give him the devil ! " a morsel which James had often in his mouth . < c Give that to your hungry courtiers , " said she , offended at his profaneness . He told her at last , that , if she would persuade her husband to submit to
the Bishops , he would allow him to return , Mrs . Welch , lifting up her apron , and holding it towards the King , replied , in the true spirit
of her father , * ' Pleaseyour Majesty , I'd-rather kep his head there . " James , whose truly despicable character this anecdote clearly evinces , stood much in awe of Mr , Welch , who often reproved
him for his habit of profane swearing . It is said , that if he had ,, at anytime , been swearing in a public place , the royal coward would tura round and abk if Welch was near .
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^ Extracts from tl'Crie ' s Life of Knox * 455
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No . IV . Brief Account of the Rev . John Craig . John Craig , the colleague of John Knox , in Edinburgh , , was born in 1512 , and soon after lost his father in the battle of Flodden . After finishing his education at the University of St . Andrew ' s , he went to England , and became tutor'fo ihe family of Lord Dacres ; but war having broken out between England and Scotland , he returned to his native country , and entered into the order of Dominican friars .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/7/
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