John Welsh

John Welsh (1570-1625), also John Welch, was a Scottish divine, a Nithsdale man. He became Presbyterian minister of Ayr, and was distinguished both as a preacher and for his sturdy opposition to the ecclesiastical tyranny of James VI, for which latter he suffered imprisonment and exile. He was an ancestor of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and was married to a daughter of John Knox, who, when the king thought to win her over by offering her husband a bishopric, held out her apron before sovereign majesty, and threatened she would rather kep (catch) his head there than that he should live and be a bishop. She figures in the chapter in "Sartor" on Aprons, as one of Carlyle's apron-worthies.

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