Thomas Bretnor
Thomas Bretnor (fl. 1607-1618), was an almanac maker. Bretnor calls himself on the title-page of one of his almanacs "", and on that of another, "professor of the mathematicks and student in physicke in Cow Lane, London". Bretnor was a notorious character in London, and is noticed by Ben Jonson in his "Devil is an Ass" (1616), i. 2, and by Thomas Middleton in his "Fair Quarrel" (1617), vi. Works. His extant works are as follows: