He was supporter of the rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, and became his chaplain, which angered King James VI and he was exiled in May 1594.
[2] 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 and underground Roman Catholic priests.
[3] 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 a covert supporter of Catholic causes.
He mentioned John Young who served Colonel William Stewart and Alexander Dickson, a "professor of the art of memory", formerly supported by the Earl of Leicester, and now an enemy of England.
[6] He became a military chaplain to the Scottish regiments fighting for the Dutch Revolt, living at Utrecht and The Hague and attended the Synod of Delft in 1622.