[1] In spite of some apparent reluctance to recognise the new king,[3] he was continued in this office by Edward IV, who knighted him before September 1461.
His name occurs in many judicial commissions in the early years of Edward's reign, and he was annually appointed justice of the peace for Norfolk and Suffolk.
[7] Yelverton was an executor and heir to the estate of Sir John Fastolf, a Norfolk knight who died in 1459.
Other properties had been similarly fought for by Fastolf in previous years and Yelverton had played a part in securing at least one, Dedham manor, for him.
John Burke from A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland... OUP, 1831.