If this is the same John Hunt, then he may have benefitted from the influence of a relation of his mother, Sir Ambrose Cave, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
[3][2] Of the total of £375 raised for the Queen's government by the landed gentry of Rutland in 1589, the most important proprietor, Sir John Harington, gave £100.
Hunt settled during the latter part of his life at Newton Burdett, Leicestershire[2] which he inherited from his father.
However, he was not the John Hunt, son of Henry Hunt and of Jane, the daughter of Aubrey deVere (son of the 15th Earl of Oxford, John de Vere) who in 1611 was accused by Elizabeth, dowager Countess of Oxford, of corrupting her young son Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford.
A nephew, William Le Hunt of Gray's Inn, was called to the degree of Serjeant of law in Trinity term 1688.