† ˈrestall Obs.
Also 7 restiall.
[App. a variant of laystall (sense 1), perh. by association with rest n.1]
A burial-place for a person.
| 1566 Shrewsbury Abbey Acc. in N. & Q. Ser. i. IX. 539 Received for restall and knyll. 1577 Ibid., Item for a restall of Jane Powell for her grandmother. [From 1593 the form is lastiall; from 1621 to 1645 restiall.] 1634 Ibid. in Miss Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (1879) 350 Paid to the Lord Bishop's secretary..to procure a mitigation of Restalls within our Church. |