Welsh

Rev. John Welsh was a Scottish Puritan who, in the seventeenth century, was for a time prisoner in Edinburgh Castle before he was sent into exile in France. One evening as he was sitting at supper with a number of the prisoners as he usually did . . . and he would preach to the prisoners and have godly and edifying conversations about the gospel. His teachings in prison were well received, except for one young Catholic prisoner. He would laugh at Welsh, make faces at him, and mock his teachings. At this dinner, Welsh told his men to be silent and watch what the Lord was about to do to this profane mocker. Almost immediately the young man sank down beneath the table and died, and he did not return to life "to the great astonishment of all the company."