Andrew Hunter (preacher)

Andrew Hunter, (d. 1638) Scottish minister and political agent.

Andrew Hunter MA was minister of Carnbee and in 1588 Newburn in Fife. He was supporter of the rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, and became his chaplain, which angered James VI of Scotland and he was exiled in May 1594.[1] Henry Lok informed Sir Robert Cecil of his arrival in London in August.[2] He became a preacher to the Scottish regiments in the United Provinces, living at Utrecht and The Hague and attended the Synod of Delft in 1622.[3] He had a large number of children and a small salary.

Hunter was an informer for Sir Robert Cecil, offering his opinions on Alexander Dickson, "ane enemie of your stait", and John Wemyss of Logie, "cunning", and sending information on the movements of Jesuits.[4] In July 1598 he was in Edinburgh undergoing questioning about his movements and Logie's confession, which appeared to implicate James VI of Scotland as supporter of Catholic causes.[5] In August 1599 Hunter was arrested at Great Yarmouth. He was carrying letters from Colonel Edmonds to James VI.[6]

References
  1. John Spottiswood, History of the Church of Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1851), p. 448, 454: Alan McDonald, The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625 (Farnham, 1998), p.56.
  2. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marqess of Salisbury at Hatfield, vol. 4 (London, 1892), p. 600.
  3. Keith Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism (Leiden, 1982), 294-5, 262.
  4. Alexandra Gadja, The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture (Oxford, 2012), p. 186: R. B. Wernham, List and Analysis of State Papers (London, 2000), p. 117.
  5. Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 13 part 1 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 230, 458.
  6. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marqess of Salisbury at Hatfield, vol. 9 (London, 1902), 319.
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