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Updated: May 6, 2025
Meanwhile he wished a little repose with the friends from whom he had been so long separated; and he went to Baldovy, where he was received with much affection.
George Wishart was a native of Angus, and his influence was nowhere greater than there. The family seat of John Erskine Dun House was in the same vicinity, and he too by his warm espousal of Protestantism strengthened its hold on the district. The Baldovy family itself had been identified with the Reformed movement from the beginning.
He decided in favour of Glasgow, on account of its greater need; and at the end of October he left Baldovy, accompanied by his nephew, to enter on his academic office.
Melville's birthplace was Baldovy, an estate in the immediate neighbourhood of Montrose, of which his father was laird. He was born on 1st August 1545 a year memorable as that of Knox's emergence to public life the youngest of nine sons, most of whom came to fill honourable positions in the Church and commonwealth. Montrose and the district around it early showed sympathy with the Reformed Faith.
Melville's eldest brother, Richard, who became minister of Maryton, was travelling tutor to Erskine, and the two studied together at Wittenberg under Melanchthon. The Melvilles were intimate with Wishart; and Baldovy and Dun House were the resorts of other leading spirits among the Reformers.
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