Bohun, Edmund
, a voluminous political and miscellaneous writer of the seventeenth century, was born at
Ringsfield, in Suffolk, the only son of Baxter Bohun, who
with his ancestors, had been lords of the manor of Westhall, in that county, from the 25th Henry VIII. In 1663,
he was admitted fellow-commoner of Queen’s college,
Cambridge, and continued there till the latter end of 1666,
when the plague obliged him and others to leave the university. In 1675 he was made a justice of peace for Suffolk, and continued in that office till the second of James
II. when he was discharged, but was restored to that office
in the first of William and Mary. The time of his death
is not mentioned, but he was alive in 1700. He wrote,
1. “An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the
nation, in three parts, being the history of three sessions
of parliament in 1678, 1682,and 1683,” 4to. 2. “A Defence of the Declaration of king Charles II. against a
pamphlet styled, A just and modest Vindication of the
proceedings of the two last Parliaments.” This was printed
with and added to the Address. 3. “A Defence of Sir
Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and representations of
Algernon Sydney, esq. in a paper delivered by him to the
sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-hill, on Friday, Dec.
7, 1683, before his execution there,” Lond. 1684. 4. “The
Justice of Peace’s Calling, a moral essay,” Lond. 1684,
8vo. 5. “A Preface and Conclusion to Sir Robert Filmer’s
Patriarcha,” ibid. 1685, 8vo. 6. “A Geographical Dictionary,” ibid. 1688, 8vo. 7. “The History of the Desertion; or an account of all the public affairs of England,
| from the beginning of Sept. 1688 to Feb. 12 following,”
ibid. 1689, 8vo. 8. “An Answer to a piece called The
Desertion discussed (by Jeremy Collier),” printed at the end
of the “History of the Desertion.” 9. “The Doctrine of
Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance no way concerned
in the controversies now depending between the Williamites
and the Jacobites,” ibid. 1689, 4to. In page 24th is a
passage respecting bishop Ken, which Mr. Bohun found to
be untrue, and therefore requests that it may be cancelled.
10. “The Life of John Jewell, bishop of Salisbury,” prefixed to a translation of his Apology, 1685. 11. “Three
Charges delivered at the general quarter sessions holden at
Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in 1691, 1692, and
1693,” 4to. 12. “The great Historical, Geographical,
and Poetical Dictionary,” Lond. 1694, fol. He also translated Sicurus’ origin of Atheism the Universal Bibliotheque, or account of books for Jan. Feb. and March 1687
Sleidan’s History of the Reformation Puffendorff’s Present State of Germany, and Degory Wheare’s Method of
reading History, Lond. 1698, 8vo. 1
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Works found by this author (or others with similar names) in the Early English Books Online Collection:
An address to the free-men and free-holders of the nation.Address to the free-men and free-holders of the nation. Part 1 (1682) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
Reflections on a pamphlet stiled, A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments, or, A defence of His Majesties late declaration by the author of The address to the freemen and free-holders of the nation. (1683) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
A defence of Sir Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and misrepresentations of Algernon Sidney, esq. in a paper delivered by him to the sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-Hill, on Fryday December the 7th 1683 before his execution there. (1684) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
An apologie for the Church of England against the clamours of the men of no-conscience, or, The Duke of Buckingham's seconds E. B. ... (1685) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories in which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read, and the judgments of learned men concerning each of them, subjoin'd / by Degoræus Wheare ... ; to which is added, an appendix concerning the historians of particular nations, as well ancient as modern, by Nicholas Horseman ; made English and enlarged by Edmund Bohun, Esq. ...Reflectiones hyemales de ratione & methodo legendi utrasque historias, civiles et ecclesiasticas. English (1685) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites by a lay gentleman of the communion of the Church of England, by law establish'd. (1689) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The history of the desertion, or, An account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of September 1688, to the twelfth of February following with an answer to a piece call'd The desertion discussed, in a letter to a country gentleman / by a person of quality. (1689) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
A continuation of the history of the Reformation to the end of the Council of Trent in the year 1563 collected and written by E.B., Esq.De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentarii (1689) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
Three charges delivered at the General Quarter Sessions holden at Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in the years 1691, 1692 to which is added the author's vindication for the calumnies and mistakes cast on him on account of his geographical dictionary / by Edmund Bohun ... (1693) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The Character of Queen Elizabeth, or, A full and clear account of her policies, and the methods of her government both in church and state her virtue and defects, together with the characters of her principal ministers of state, and the greatest part of the affairs and events that happened in her times / collected and faithfully represented by Edmund Bohun, Esquire. (1693) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The justice of peace, his calling and qualifications by Edmund Bohun, Esq. (1693) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions. (1693) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
A brief, but most true relation of the late barbarous and bloody plot of the negro's [sic] in the island of Barbado's [sic] on Friday the 21. of October, 1692. To kill the governour and all the planters, and to destroy the government there established, and to set up a new governour and government of their own. In a letter to a friend (1693) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
The proposal for the raising of the silver coin of England, from 60 pence in the ounce to 75 pence, considered; vvith the consequences thereof. (1696) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
A proposal for the erecting of county registers for free-hold lands shewing the great use and benefit of them. By E.B. Esquire. (1697) by Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
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