CANT, Andrew elder, Minister of St Nicholas parish Aberdeen, Reverend Mr 2
- Born: About 1584 1
- Marriage (1): IRVINE, Margaret 1
- Died: 27 April 1663 1 3
Andrew married Margaret IRVINE.1 (Margaret IRVINE was born about 1590.)
Marriage Notes:
(at St Nicholas parish, Aberdeen in 1641)
"Andrew Cant, the elder, born 1584. Nothing definitely is known as to his parentage, though it is supposed with some show of reason that he was a native of Aberdeen, and connected with the family of Walter C., formerly a bailie of Leith, who on 1st Oct. 1548, was admitted to the Guildry of Aberdeen. He has also been described as a native of Haddingtonshire, and of the Mearns, and the son of a dependant of the Earl Marischal. Educated at the Grammar School and King's College, Aberdeen, he graduated M.A. in 1612; was app. Humanist in King's College in 1614; adm. min. of Alford before 13th Dec. 1617; dem, after 26th Oct. 1629, on becoming tutor to the only son of Alexander Forbes, Lord Pitsligo; adm. to Pitsligo before 20th Nov. 1633; endeavoured to get up supplications to the Privy Council from the North against the Service Book Oct. 1637, and accompanied Henderson of Leuchars and Dickson of Irvine to Aberdeen, with this view, towards the end of that year; was a member of the Assembly which met at Glasgow in 1638; trans, to Newbattle 20th May 1639; served as chaplain with the Scots army at Newcastle in 1640; elected to this charge by a Committee of Assembly and adm. 24th March 1641; was a member of all the Commissions of Assembly, 1642-9; had 2000 merks allowed him by Parliament, 4th Feb. 1646, for his services and losses; was elected Moderator of the General Assembly 10th July 1650. Joined the Protesters in 1651; became rector of King's College in 1651; is said to have been dep. on a charge of circulating Rutherford's Lex Rex, but probably dem. in 1660; died 27th April 1663. He was the most actively bigoted supporter of the Covenant in the North of Scotland, a man of great moral earnestness and courage, and was one of those summoned before the Privy Council, 9th Dec. 1662, for seditious carriage.
He marr. Margaret Irvine, who was buried 28th March 1679, and had issue James; Alexander, min. of Banchory-Ternan; Andrew (secundus), Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh; Margaret, died unmarr. 1660; Sarah (marr. 4th May 1647, as his second wife, Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells), died a Quaker in 1673..."
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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