Later History
During the August 1648, he made a futile attempt to raise the Siege of Walmer Castle in Deal, one of the Cinque Ports, and customary home of the Lord Warden. Sir Algernon Sydney replaced him as Warden in 1648. In 1659, Boys was held as a prisoner in Dover Castle for 'petitioning for a free Parliament', but was released on 23 February 1660. He was then, reputedly, granted the office of Receiver of Customs at Dover from Charles II.
A few years later on 8 October 1664, Sir John Boys died at his house at Bonnington and was buried in the parish church of Goodnestone-next-Wingham (near Canterbury) in Kent.
He was married twice, and by his first wife, Lucy, he had five daughters.
His second marriage was to the Lady Elizabeth Finch, widow of Sir Nathaniel Finch, and a daughter of Sir John Fotherby of Barham (Kent).
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