on a Sunday in February 1588, having first 'received sacraments, unction, and all'. Three years later his body was exhumed and gibbeted in Zutphen by order of the states.

His heir was Edmund Yorke, who was executed at Tyburn in 1595 for attempting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Edmund had been persuaded by his uncle's associate Sir William Stanley, and Stanley's rather mysterious lieutenant Jacques de Francesci (Captain Jacques),