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Hugh Peter
Hugh Peter (or Peters) (baptized 29 June 1598 – 16 October 1660) was an English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, and became highly influential. He employed a flamboyant preaching style that was considered highly effective in furthering the interests of the Puritan cause. From a radically Protestant family of Cornwall, England, though of part Dutch origin, Peters emigrated to a Puritan colony in America, where he first rose to prominence. After spending time in Holland, he returned to England, and became a close associate and propagandist for Cromwell. Peters may have been the first to propose the trial and execution of Charles I, and was believed to have assisted at the beheading. Peters unsuccessfully proposed revolutionary charges that would have disestablished the Church of England's role in landholding and strike at the heart of the legal title to property. Disagreeing with the war against Protestant Holland, and increasingly excluded after Cromwell's death, Peters's former outspokenness meant he faced reprisal following the Restoration, and he was put to death as a regicide.
==Early life==
Peters had an affluent background, his father was from Antwerp. Peters was baptized on 29 June 1598 in Fowey, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Having experienced conversion, he preached in Essex; returning to London he took Anglican orders and was appointed lecturer at St Sepulchre's. He entertained, however, Puritan opinions, and eventually left England for Holland. He visited Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in Germany in about 1632, and afterwards became the minister of the English church at Rotterdam.
Here his Puritan leanings again attracted attention, and Peter made a further move to New England. He was connected with John Winthrop through his wife, and had already formed several friendships with the American colonists.〔Elizabeth, Peter's first wife connected him with the Winthrop family, for Elizabeth's first husband, Edmund Read, was father of a daughter Elizabeth who was the wife of John Winthrop the younger .〕 He arrived at Boston in October 1635 and was given charge of the church at Salem. He played a significant role during the 1637 trial of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy, being one of the ministers wanting her banished from the colony. He took a leading part in the affairs of the colony, and interested himself in the founding of the new colony in Connecticut. He was also active in the establishment of Harvard College.〔Spencer, Charles, Killers of the King〕
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