Career
Bretnor calls himself on the title-page of one of his almanacs "student in astronomie and physicke," 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.
