English Almanacks During the First Third of the Nineteenth Century: A Paper Read Before the Manchester Literary Club, January 15th, 1900 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from English Almanacks During the First Third of the Nineteenth Century: A Paper Read Before the Manchester Literary Club, January 15th, 1900

It will, perhaps, be remembered that the publication of almanacks was a monopoly shared in by the Company of Stationers and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This monopoly was granted in the time of Elizabeth to two members of the Stationers' Company,* and was extended to the Univer sities of Oxford and Cambridge by James I. For the last three years prior to 1775, a printer named Thomas Carnan, in defiance of the monopoly, published several almanacks on his own ac count, and in the course of the above-named year, was arraigned before the Court of Common Pleas for his offence.

The Court, doubting the validity of the King's Charter, on which the right of the Universities and the Stationery Company was founded, directed a question upon its legality to be argued before the Court of Common Pleas, whose judges, after two arguments before them, certified that the patent was void in law; the Court of Exchequer thereupon dismissed the Bill, and the injunction was dissolved.

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