Beaver Press | 1915-12-17 | Page 6 | An Almanac Monopoly

an almanac monopoly the sale ot of almanacs was once a lucrative monopoly queen elizabeth granted the sole right to publish almanacs and prognostications to the stationers stationery Station ers company and james I 1 extended the privilege to the un universities alverst of oxford and cambridge but for centuries only these three bodies were permitted to issue printed calendars tile the mono ply ended when the claim of the king to the privilege of granting or withholding permission to issue calendars a survival perhaps from days when kings asserted their right to regulate all things inc including lulling oven even the times and seasons was definitely disproved and proclaimed nonexistent now anybody can say eay chos who anywhere london chronicle