and if you pleaſe to ſtay another night with him you may be ſatisfied. The friar got him to Mr Welch's houſe, and pretended indiſpoſition, entreated another night's lodging, which was granted him.
Before dinner, Mr. Welch came from his chamber, and made his family exerciſe, according to cuſtome. And firſt ſung a pſalm, then read a portion of ſcripture, and diſcourſed upon it, thereafter he prayed with great fervour, as his cuſtom was: To all which the friar was in aſtoniſhed witneſs. After the exerciſe they went to dinner, where the friar was very civily uſed Mr Welch forbearing all queſtious and diſpute with him for the time? when the evening came, Mr. Welch made his exerciſe as he had done in the morning, which occaſiond yet more wondering in the friar, and after ſupper to bed they went; but the friar longed much to know what the night whiſper was, and in that he was ſoon ſatisfied, for after Mr. Welch's firſt ſleep, the noiſe began, and (illegible text) then the friar reſolved to be ſure what it was, ſo he crept ſilently to Mr. Welch's chamber-door, and there he heard not only the ſound, but the words diſtinctly, and communications betwixt God and man, and ſuch as ⟨knew⟩ not had been in the world. Upon the next morning, as ſoon as Mr. Welch was ready, the friar went to him, and told him, that he had been bred in ignorance, and lived in darkneſs all his time, but now he was reſolved to adventure his ſoul with Mr. Welch, and thereupon declared himſelf a Proteſtant: Mr. Welch welcomed him and encouraged him, and he continued a conſtant Proteſtant to his dying day. This ſtory I had from a godly miniſter, who was bred in Mr. Welch's houſe, when in France.
When Lewis XIII king of France, made war upon the Proteſtants there, becauſe of their religion, the city of St. Jean d' Angely was by him and his royal army ⟨beſieged⟩, and brought it to extreme danger Mr. Welch (illegible text) miniſter in the town, and mightily encouraged the citizens to hold out, aſſuring them, God ſhould deliver ⟨them⟩ In the time of the ſiege a cannon ball pierced the ⟨bed⟩ where he was lying, upon which he got up, but would
