User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Just a thought: Why did Hunith send Merlin to Camelot?/@comment-5102537-20121209101645/@comment-5674726-20121209112622

Anyway, Cenred was one of the kings who obviously had no problem with magic.

He didn't have a problem with magic being used to his benefit. He might have felt differently about a peasant boy born with the kind of power Merlin has. Even the rulers who didn't hunt down magic users would be wary of somebody with such powerful magic, unless that person was working for them. Hunith may have feared recruitment as well as persecution.