“ His patent as judge of the Queen's Bench was granted on the 27th of October 1558. Rastell continued on the bench until 1562, when he retired to Louvain without the queen's licence. By virtue of a special commission issued by the barons of the Exchequer on the occasion an inventory of his goods and chattels was taken. It furnishes an excellent idea of the modest nature of the law library (consisting of twenty-four works) and of the chambers of an Elizabethan judge (see Law Magazine, February 1844) . He died at Louvain on the 27th of August 1565. ”

“ It is difficult to distinguish between the books written by him and those by his father. The following are believed to be his: A Collection of all the Statutes (1559) , A Table collected of the Yeares of the Kynges of Englande (1561) , both frequently reprinted with continuations, and A Colleccion of Entrees, of Declarations, &c. ”