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Show An Almanac Monopoly, The sale of almanacs was or.ee a lucrative monopoly. Queen Elizabeth granted the sole right to publish "almanacs "al-manacs and prognostications" to the Stationers' company, and .lames 1 ex tended the privilege to the Unlversl ties of Oxford and Cambridge, but for centuries only these three bodies wer permitted to issue printed calendars The monoply ended when the claim of the king to the privilfpe of granting grant-ing or withholding permission to issue calendars a survival, perhaps, from days when kings asserted tielr right to regulate all things, including even the times and seasons was definitely disproved and proclaimed nonexistent. nonexis-tent. Now anybody can say who s who anywhere. London Chronicle. |