Henry Muddiman began producing two regular newsbooks in late 1659 on the proceedings of the newly reconvened Rump Parliament, which seems to have been at the suggestion of George Monck (who was the 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG), which eventually resulted in Muddiman having a monopoly of print along with arch-royalist John Birkenhead as a supervising editor.
Henry Muddiman began producing two regular newsbooks in late 1659 on the proceedings of the newly reconvened Rump Parliament, which seems to have been at the suggestion of George Monck (who was the 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG), which eventually resulted in Muddiman having a monopoly of print along with arch-royalist John Birkenhead as a supervising editor.