Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Rastall, John (1)

by Joseph Foster

Rastall, John, a Londoner born, "where he set up the trade of printing, being then esteemed a profession fit for any scholar or ingenious man;" married Elizabeth, sister of Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor of England; died in 1536; father of William named below. See Ath. i. 100; & Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.