Education
Yates was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Divinity in 1618.
editor preacher Anglican cleric
Yates was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Divinity in 1618.
He was preacher at Saint Andrew"s, Norwich from 1616. In 1622 he was presented by Sir Nathaniel Bacon to the rectories of Saint Mary with Saint John Stiffkey in Norfolk. In 1624 Yates and Nathaniel Ward (1577–1640) complained to a committee of the House of Commons about the Arminian and popish opinions expressed by Richard Montagu in A New Gagg for an Old Goose (1624).
As the session was drawing to a close, the Commons referred the complaint to George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury.
Montagu himself referred the matter to the king in his treatise Appello Cæsarem (1625), which was censured by the Commons. In 1658 Yates was succeeded at Saint Mary Stiffkey by William Mitchel.
(died August 1659), is buried on the north side of Saint Nicholas Church, Yarmouth.