dated from Cambuskenneth, June, 1530, in which he is styled "Canonicus
Dunblanensis," heading a list of "venerable and discreet" gentlemen,
including Alanus Balward, vicar of Kalender, and Andreas Sym, vicar of
Cumry, but we cannot trace him further down than March of the following
year. It is clear from this that Glendevon was attached to the "Kirk
of Dunblane," and that the Parish Church was served from there, not, it
is to be hoped, in the slovenly fashion characteristic of these times,
when the stipend was too often fought for by different teind hunters in
the shape of the bishop of the diocese and the abbot of some
neighbouring monastery, a state of things to which Prebendary Wilson
himself bears witness. There is something almost pathetic in the
thought that less than forty years after that dedication service in
which the Prebendary of Glendevon took part, these additions were to be
pulled to pieces by the savage mob which wrecked, amongst other
religious houses, the stately monastery on the Links of the Forth; and
it is just possible that the great destroyer--spiritually at least--of
what Canon Wilson helped to build up was in his parish in 1556. At any
rate a spot is still pointed out on the glebe where, according to
tradition, John Knox preached. We know from his own statement[3] that
he spent some time in the early part of the summer of that year at
Castle Campbell--which is only some four or five miles distant--"whare
he taught certane dayis"; so it is at least not utterly improbable that
he may have come through Glenquey past the Maiden's Well, and visited a
possible congregation in Glendovan, exhorting them to "prayaris, to
reading of the Scriptures, and mutuall conference unto such tyme as God
should give unto them grettar libertie."[4]
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