[390] To these Reasons he appended a postscript entitled A Just and True Character of Edmund Bohun.

This character was written with extreme bitterness.
Passages were quoted from the licenser's writings to prove that he held the doctrines of passive obedience and nonresistance.

He was accused of using his power systematically for the purpose of favouring the enemies and silencing the friends of the Sovereigns whose bread he ate; and it was asserted that he was the friend and the pupil of his predecessor Sir Roger.
Blount's Character of Bohun could not be publicly sold; but it was widely circulated.

While it was passing from hand to hand, and while the Whigs were every where exclaiming against the new censor as a second Lestrange, he was requested to authorise the publication of an anonymous work entitled King William and Queen Mary Conquerors.

[391] He readily and indeed eagerly complied.