Edmund Ashfield (Catholic agent)

For the 17th century English painter, see Edmund Ashfield.
Sands at Seafield near Leith, where Edmund Ashfield was abducted in 1599

Edmund Ashfield (1576 – ca. 1620) was an English Catholic from Tattenhoe in Buckinghamshire. In 1599 he travelled to Edinburgh to meet James VI of Scotland. An English diplomat organised his kidnap and rendition in the belief that Ashfield was an agent of James VI and working to further his succession to the English throne.