Editing Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper) (section)

==Marriages and issue==
Nicholas Bacon's first marriage was to Jane Ferneley (d.1552). Nicholas and Jane had six surviving children, three sons and three daughters:<ref name=Tittler_2004/>

*[[Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave]] (c.1540–1624), who married Anne Butts, the only child and daughter of Edmund Butts (a son of [[William Butts|Sir William Butts]], doctor to King Henry VIII) by his wife Anne Bures,<ref name=Tittler_1976>{{Harvnb|Tittler|1976|p=153}}</ref> (whose inscribed ledger stone is in Redgrave Church)<ref name=":1">See image: [[:File:St Marys church in Redgrave - early C17 memorial (geograph 2258720).jpg]] https://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/index-of-brasses/ann-butts</ref> one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Henry Bures (d.1528) of Acton, Suffolk. Anne Butts was the heir of her uncle Sir William Butts (d.1583), junior, of Thornage, Norfolk, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1563, whose Easter Sepulchre monument survives in Thornage Church. Three of the daughters and co-heiresses of Henry Bures married three of the sons of Sir William Butts, senior.<ref>Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.407-8 [https://archive.org/details/churchheraldryn00farrgoog/page/406/mode/2up?view=theater] See image [[:File:All Saints Church - monument - geograph.org.uk - 764500.jpg]]</ref>
*[[Edward Bacon (died 1618)|Edward Bacon]] (1548/9 – 1618), who married Helen Little, the daughter of Sir Thomas Little of [[Bray, Berkshire]], by Elizabeth Lyton (daughter of Sir Robert Lyton of [[Knebworth]], [[Hertfordshire]]), by whom he was the father of [[Nathaniel Bacon (English politician)|Nathaniel Bacon]] (1593–1660) and [[Francis Bacon (Ipswich MP)|Francis Bacon]] (1600–1663).<ref name=Tittler_1976/><ref name=Smith_2004>{{Harvnb|Smith|2004}}.</ref>
*[[Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey|Sir Nathaniel Bacon]] (c.1546 – November 1622), who first married, in July 1569, Anne Gresham (d.1594), the illegitimate daughter of [[Thomas Gresham|Sir Thomas Gresham]], founder of the [[Royal Exchange, London|Royal Exchange]], by Anne Dutton; secondly, on 21 July 1597 he married Dorothy Hopton (c.1570–1629), daughter of [[Arthur Hopton (died 1607)|Arthur Hopton]] and widow of William Smith of [[Burgh Castle]], [[Suffolk]].<ref name=Tittler_1976/><ref name=Smith_2004/>
*[[Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)|Elizabeth Bacon]], who married:
*# Sir Robert Doyley;
*#[[Henry Neville (died 1593)|Sir Henry Neville]],
*#[[William Peryam|Sir William Peryam]].<ref name=Tittler_1976/><ref>{{Harvnb|Harley|2005|pp=4–7}}; {{Harvnb|Riordan|2004}}.</ref>
*Anne Bacon, who married [[Henry Woodhouse (MP)|Sir Henry Woodhouse]] (d.1624),<ref name=Tittler_1976/><ref>{{Harvnb|Ungerer|1974|p=278}}.</ref><ref name=Smith_2002>{{Harvnb|Smith|2002|p=180}}.</ref> by whom she was the mother of [[Henry Woodhouse (governor)|Sir Henry Woodhouse]].
*Elizabeth Bacon, who married:
*#Francis Wyndham, the son of Sir Edmund Wyndham.,<ref name=Tittler_1976/><ref name=Smith_2002/>
*#[[Robert Mansell]]<ref>Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 for Robert Mansell</ref>

Sir Nicholas Bacon's second marriage, in 1553, was to [[Anne Bacon|Anne Cooke]] (1528–1610), one of the daughters of [[Anthony Cooke|Sir Anthony Cooke]], by whom he had two sons:
*[[Anthony Bacon (1558–1601)|Anthony Bacon]] (1558–1601)
*[[Francis Bacon]] (1561–1626), who became [[Lord Chancellor]] and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

Jane's widowed younger sister, Anne Ferneley (d.1596), married secondly in 1544 to [[Thomas Gresham|Sir Thomas Gresham]].<ref name=Tittler_2004>{{Harvnb|Tittler|2004}}.</ref>{{Fix|text=How does that fit in?}}