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Clan Hunter
Clan Hunter is a Scottish clan.
It is likely that the Hunters went to Scotland with David I of Scotland upon his invitation and were given lands named Hunter's Toune.[unreliable source?]
In 1296 Aylmer le Hunter of the county of Ayr appears on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England.[unreliable source?]
A charter signed by Robert II of Scotland on 2 May 1374 has survived that confirmed a grant of land to William Hunter for his faithful service rendered and to be rendered to us in return for a silver penny payable to the Sovereign at Hunterston on the Feast of Pentecost.[unreliable source?] To this day the Laird of Hunterston, chief of Clan Hunter keeps silver pennies, minted in the reigns of Robert II and George V in case of a royal visit on the day appointed for payment of her rent.[unreliable source?] The William Hunter who received this charter is reckoned to have been the tenth Hunter of Hunterston. In earlier records both William Hunter and Norman Hunter appear using the Latin form of the name, Venator.[unreliable source?]
The Hunters were hereditary keepers of the royal forests of Arran and Little Cumbrae by the fifteenth century.[unreliable source?] The family appear to have held this office from an early date and also claim a long descent from people who held similar offices in England and Normandy before they came to Scotland.[unreliable source?] Andrew Hunter, Abbot of Melrose, was one of the most publicly-prominent members of the family during the Middle Ages. He served as Lord High Treasurer of Scotland under James II, 1443-1450, and held residence at Mauchline Castle, Ayrshire (known colloquially as 'Abbot Hunter's Tower'), where the heraldic arms of the family remain embossed on the vaulting of the hall.
During the sixteenth century the Hunters rendered chiefly military service. John Hunter, the fourteenth Laird was killed with his king at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.[unreliable source?] His son was Robert who was trouble with sickness and infirmity and was excused from military service in 1542 by James V of Scotland, providing that he sent his eldest son in his place. His son was Mungo who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547.[unreliable source?]
Successive generations of Hunters were more peaceful Lairds and tended to their estates and looked after their tenants.[unreliable source?] Younger sons and junior branches of the house of Hunterstoun entered the church and the professions. Robert Hunter who was a son of the twentieth Laird graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1643 and was minister of West Kilbride.[unreliable source?] He bought lands and founded the Hunters of Kirkland branch of the clan.[unreliable source?] William Hunter, son of Robert Hunter, provost of Ayr, was an Episcopalian clergyman and Jacobite, who witnessed the proclamation issued by James, the Old Pretender during the rebellion of 1715 and was ejected as a result from his ministry at Banff.
A grandson of the twentieth Laird was another Robert Hunter who served under Marlborough and was Governor of Virginia and later Governor of New York.[unreliable source?]. Hunter was among the outstanding colonial governors of the period. He was a scholar, poet, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and wrote 'Androboros': a satirical play aimed at his political opponents, which is believed to be first work of theatre publicly performed in New York.
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Clan Hunter
Clan Hunter is a Scottish clan.
It is likely that the Hunters went to Scotland with David I of Scotland upon his invitation and were given lands named Hunter's Toune.[unreliable source?]
In 1296 Aylmer le Hunter of the county of Ayr appears on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England.[unreliable source?]
A charter signed by Robert II of Scotland on 2 May 1374 has survived that confirmed a grant of land to William Hunter for his faithful service rendered and to be rendered to us in return for a silver penny payable to the Sovereign at Hunterston on the Feast of Pentecost.[unreliable source?] To this day the Laird of Hunterston, chief of Clan Hunter keeps silver pennies, minted in the reigns of Robert II and George V in case of a royal visit on the day appointed for payment of her rent.[unreliable source?] The William Hunter who received this charter is reckoned to have been the tenth Hunter of Hunterston. In earlier records both William Hunter and Norman Hunter appear using the Latin form of the name, Venator.[unreliable source?]
The Hunters were hereditary keepers of the royal forests of Arran and Little Cumbrae by the fifteenth century.[unreliable source?] The family appear to have held this office from an early date and also claim a long descent from people who held similar offices in England and Normandy before they came to Scotland.[unreliable source?] Andrew Hunter, Abbot of Melrose, was one of the most publicly-prominent members of the family during the Middle Ages. He served as Lord High Treasurer of Scotland under James II, 1443-1450, and held residence at Mauchline Castle, Ayrshire (known colloquially as 'Abbot Hunter's Tower'), where the heraldic arms of the family remain embossed on the vaulting of the hall.
During the sixteenth century the Hunters rendered chiefly military service. John Hunter, the fourteenth Laird was killed with his king at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.[unreliable source?] His son was Robert who was trouble with sickness and infirmity and was excused from military service in 1542 by James V of Scotland, providing that he sent his eldest son in his place. His son was Mungo who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547.[unreliable source?]
Successive generations of Hunters were more peaceful Lairds and tended to their estates and looked after their tenants.[unreliable source?] Younger sons and junior branches of the house of Hunterstoun entered the church and the professions. Robert Hunter who was a son of the twentieth Laird graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1643 and was minister of West Kilbride.[unreliable source?] He bought lands and founded the Hunters of Kirkland branch of the clan.[unreliable source?] William Hunter, son of Robert Hunter, provost of Ayr, was an Episcopalian clergyman and Jacobite, who witnessed the proclamation issued by James, the Old Pretender during the rebellion of 1715 and was ejected as a result from his ministry at Banff.
A grandson of the twentieth Laird was another Robert Hunter who served under Marlborough and was Governor of Virginia and later Governor of New York.[unreliable source?]. Hunter was among the outstanding colonial governors of the period. He was a scholar, poet, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and wrote 'Androboros': a satirical play aimed at his political opponents, which is believed to be first work of theatre publicly performed in New York.