Elizabeth Knox Welch was the youngest daughter of John Knox and married a man like her father—John Welch, an unflinching Presbyterian pastor and a man of prayer. Her husband was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle in 1605 and exiled in 1606 for opposing the imposition of bishops and for declaring that Christ alone was head of the Church, not King James. Mrs. Welch shared her husband’s many years of exile in France. When John Welch’s health began to fail, she personally petitioned the king, a relative on her mother’s side, to grant her husband liberty to return to Scotland. The king refused this unless she would persuade her husband to submit to the bishops. Mrs. Welch, in the true spirit of her father, replied that she would rather receive her husband’s head in her apron than see him compromise the Faith.