Edmund Bohun

Edmund Bohun (1645–1699) was an English writer on history and politics, a publicist in the Tory interest.

Edmund Bohun was born on March 12, 1644/5 in Ringsfield, Suffolk, England. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He married Mary Brampton (d. 1719) on July 26, 1669. They had a single child, Nicholas (1679-1718) who died in Carolina.

In the late 1660s, Bohun became associated with William Sancroft, Samuel Parker and Leoline Jenkins, in a group of High Church proto-Tory thinkers. He began to write against the Whigs after the Exclusion Crisis of the 1680s. He attacked Whig theories and in particular Algernon Sidney in his Defence of Sir Robert Filmer (1684). Sancroft asked Bohun to edit Robert Filmer’s works, for an edition of 1685, and its preface Bohun attacked James Tyrrell.

In reply to Jeremy Collier's The Desertion discuss'd in a Letter to a Country Gentleman (1688), Bohun wrote The History of the Desertion (1690), bringing forward an argument influential for Tories who (unlike Collier) were prepared to swear allegiance after the Glorious Revolution; this work was the first history written of the events in which James II of England left the throne. He drew on the work of Grotius, in De Jure Belli ac Pacis, for the idea of conquest after a just war as applicable to the contemporary United Kingdom, as was also done by William King.

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