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John Paston, with some justification, claimed to be his heir; this put him in direct conflict with various major players of the time, such as the Duke of Norfolk and Sir William Yelverton.
When the knight died in 1459 Worcester, found that nothing had been bequeathed to him although he was one of his executors and, with one of his colleagues Sir William Yelverton, he disputed the validity of the will.
Sir John Fortescue, was a great medieval jurist and Lord Chancellor of Henry VI of England; Sir William Yelverton was an earlier Lord Chief Justice of England; Sir Roger Manwood was an Elizabethan Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and his nephew, John Manwood, Sir Nicholas's great great great grandfather, was the author of 'the Forest Laws'.