John
Carmichael, John Gillespie, William Erskine, Colin Campbel, James
Muirhead, John Mitchel, John Davidson, John Coldon, John Abernethy,
James Davidson, Adam Bannantyne, John Row, William Buchanan, John
Kennedy, John Ogilvie, John Scrimgeour, John Malcolm, James Burden,
Isaac Blackfoord, Isaac Strachan, James Row, William Row, Robert Merser,
Edmund Myles, John French, Patrick Simpson, John Dykes, William Young,
William Cooper, William Keith, Hugh Duncan, James Merser, Robert Colvil,
William Hog, Robert Wallace, David Barclay, John Weemes, William
Cranston.

[47] These were, 1. Kneeling at the communion. 2. Private communion. 3.
Private baptism. 4. Observation of holydays. 5. Confirmation of
children.

[48] See them in Calderwood's history, page 708.

[49] Vide Mr. Welch's dispute with Gilbert Brown the papist, in preface.

[50] The first was called Dr. Welch, a doctor of medicine, who was
unhappily killed, upon an innocent mistake in the Low Countries.

Another son he had most lamentably lost at sea, for when the ship in
which he was, was sunk, he swam to a rock in the sea, but starved there
for want of necessary food and refreshment, and when sometime afterward
his body was found upon the rock, they found him dead in a praying
posture upon his bended knees, with his hands stretched out, and this
was all the satisfaction his friends and the world had upon his
lamentable death.

Another he had who was heir to his father's graces and blessings, and
this was Mr. Josias Welch minister at Temple patrick in the north of
Ireland, commonly called the Cock of the conscience by the people of
that country, because of his extraordinary awakening and rouzing gift:
He was one of that blest society of ministers, which wrought that
unparallelled work in the north of Ireland, about the year 1636 but was
himself a man most sadly exercised with doubts about his own salvation
all his time, and would ordinarily say, That minister was much to be
pitied, who was called to comfort weak saints, and had no comfort
himself. He died in his youth, and left for his successor, Mr. John
Welch minister in Irongray in Galloway, the place of his grandfather's
nativity. What business this made in Scotland, in the time of the late
episcopal persecution, for the space of twenty years, is known to all
Scotland. He maintained his dangerous post of preaching the gospel upon
the mountains of Scotland notwithstanding of the threatenings of the
state, t