 Boghurst died on 2 September 1685 aged 54 and was conveyed from London to be buried in the churchyard at Ditton.Thomas Tilson was the rector of Ditton from 1679–1702 and was in correspondence with the Protestant cleric Richard Baxter.In one letter Tilson described how a woman from Rochester had gone to her father's house in West Malling where she died on 4 June 1691.