 Another cousin, William Walpole, offered him an asylum at North Tuddenham in Norfolk.He reconciled William to his wife, from whom he had been for estranged, and when in October 1587 William died, he left most of his large property to Edward, subject to the life interest of his widow.John Gerard was then active in Norfolk among the recusant gentry, and one of his first converts was Edward Walpole.