Edward Boughen

Edward Boughen, D.D. (1587–1660?), was an English Royalist divine.
Life.
Boughen was a native of Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Westminster School, and was then elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1609, M.A. 1612). He was appointed chaplain to John Howson, bishop of Oxford; he afterwards held a cure at Bray in Berkshire; and on 13 April 1633 was collated to the rectory of Woodchurch in Kent. The presbyterian inhabitants of Woodchurch petitioned against him in 1640 for having acted as a justice of the peace, and he was ejected from both his livings. He then returned to Oxford, where he was created D.D. on 1 July 1646, shortly before the surrender of the garrison to the parliamentary forces; he later lived at Chartham in Kent. Anthony Wood wrote: "This Dr. Boughen, as I have been informed, lived to see his majesty restored, and what before he had lost, he did obtain" ; and Baker also states that "Boughen died soon after the Restoration, aged 74, plus minus". It is not improbable that he is identical with the Edward Boughen, prebendary of Marden in the church of Chichester, whose death occurred between 29 May and 11 August 1660.
Theology.
Boughen defended Arminian theological views through his writings. 
Works.
Boughen was a learned man and a staunch defender of the church of England. He published: