He became Dean of Worcester, and was nominated one of the translators for the Authorised King James Version, in the Second Oxford Company, but died in the earliest stages of the project.

He was born probably in Bedfordshire, was educated at Westminster School, and was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1571.

His widow, Margaret, a daughter of Herbert Westfaling, Bishop of Hereford, erected a monument with a punning epitaph.

[1] A journey north with his friend Toby Mathew prompted Latin verse, entitled Iter Boreale.

Edes also left various other Latin and English poems, scattered through several manuscript collections of the poetry of his day, and William Gager addressed verse to him.