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CANT, ANDREW (159o?-1663)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW (159o?-1663) , a See also:leader of the Scottish See also:Covenanters. About 1623 the See also:people of See also:Edinburgh called him to be their See also:minister, but he was rejected by See also:James I. Ten years later he was minister of Pitsligo in See also:Aberdeenshire, a See also:charge which he See also:left in 1638 for that of Newbattle in See also:Mid-See also:Lothian. In See also:July of that See also:year he went with other commissioners to See also:Aberdeen in the vain See also:attempt to induce the university and the See also:presbytery of that See also:city to subscribe the See also:National See also:Covenant, and in the following See also:November sat in the See also:general See also:assembly at See also:Glasgow which abolished See also:episcopacy in See also:Scotland. In 164o he was See also:chaplain to the Scottish See also:army and then settled as minister at Aberdeen. Though a stanch Covenanter, he was a zealous Royalist,See also:preaching before See also:Charles I. in Edinburgh, and stoutly advocating the restoration of the See also:monarchy in the See also:time of the See also:Commonwealth. Cant's frequent and See also:bitter attacks on various members of his See also:congregation led in 166o to complaints laid before the magistrates, in consequence of which he resigned his charge. His son Andrew was See also:principal of Edinburgh University (1675–1685).

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