A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Brudenell or Brudnell (Thomas)
BRUDENELL or BRUDNELL (THOMAS), printer in London; Newgate Market, 1621-60. Is first heard of as partner with John Beale, in 1621. [Arber, iii. 699-700.] He afterwards set up for himself as a printer in Newgate Market, taking as partner Robert White. A feature of their business was the printing of astrological works, this being one of the few houses in London that stocked astrological signs. They issued a duodecimo edition of the Bible in 1647, and appear to have had an extensive assortment of letter of varying merit, notably two founts of great primer roman and italic used in the latter half of Sprigges' Anglia Rediviva, which they printed in 1647. In 1651 Thomas Brudenell brought an action against the executors of John Partridge, a London bookseller, to recover a debt for printing various books, chiefly the writings of William Lilly, the titles, prices and quantities being set out at length. [Library, N.S., January, 1906.]