[2] He was a nephew of Francis Bacon and a friend of Sir Henry Wotton with whom he would often talk about his uncle's scientific experiments.
[2] Edmund's beliefs about religion are unknown, although he was described by a Puritan chaplain named Robert Allen as "Lovers of piety and justice, and friends to the church of God.
"[2] He was born in 1570 as the oldest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, Suffolk and his wife Anne Butts.
[5] Her uncle, the diplomat Henry Wotton often came to Redgrave Hall to visit his "sweet niece".
He enjoyed their company and wrote "there is in their conversations, and in the freedom of their entertainment, a kind of delightful violence".