Show an almanac monopoly the sale of almanacs waa once a lucrative monopoly queen elizabeth granted the sole right to publish al magacs and prognostications to the stationery stationers Station ers company and james I 1 ex tended the privilege to the ties of oxford and cambridge but for centuries only these three bodies were permitted to issue printed calendars cal endara the ended when the claim of the king to the privilege of grant ing or withholding permission to issue calendars a survival perhaps from days when kings asserted their right to regulate all things including even the times and seasons was definitely disproved and proclaimed tent now anybody can say who s who anywhere london chronicle |