Glendevon

Glendevon, but about thirty years later the home of the Taits, which the poet found so pleasant, is brought into close connection with the parish owing to an incident which had its own share in giving to the

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

Some years later the parish of Glendevon came prominently before the public in connection with the deposition and excommunication of its doughty true-blue Presbyterian minister, the Rev. William Spence, M.A., though it was not till he had been removed from his living that the really romantic part of his career began.

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Glendevon in accredited records, and that belongs to the year 1521.

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

In the very heart of the Ochils its name changes from Gleneagles to Glendevon.

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

An Abdiel, however, was found among the faithless in the person of William Spence, minister of Glendevon.

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Glendevon; in 1691 was translated to Fossoway, and, having outlived all his troubles, died there in peace in 1715 at the age of eighty.

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The second direct mention of Glendevon in public records is of a somewhat unsavoury order, and affords a rather curious illustration of the beliefs of the people of Scotland in the seventeenth century.

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Seeing that "St. Serf's Bridge" still spans the Devon at one part within the parish of Glendevon, and that the good Saint did not himself build the bridge, but, following a common practice, baptised and made

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

Crawfurd from Harvieston to Glendevon to visit old Miss Rutherford, and stayed the night in her house.

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

That distant point was the goal of his endeavour, and the shortest way to it was across the Firth of Forth, through the western division of Fife, and on by one of the Ochil passes -- Glendevon, or some other further east into Strathearn.

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