Henry Muddiman
Henry Muddiman (born in 1629 - died in 1692) is a Journaliste and a editor English of the end of the 17th century, mainly active under the reign of Charles II during the English Restauration.
Muddiman was born in the Strand, with London. After having exerted the functions of teacher at the beginning of his life, it started to regularly write two chronicles of press towards 1659, at the time of the constitution of the " Parliament tail " : it was of the Parliamentary Intelligencer and the Mercurius Publicus . The April 16th 1660, the activity of Muddiman was consolidated by the prohibition of all the other press agencies, in particular those of Marchamont Needham, the principal editor under Oliver Cromwell. One conferred on Muddiman a Monopole of the Imprimerie, under the monitoring and the supervision of the ultraroyalist editor John Birkenhead.
Muddiman lost the right to publish its newspapers later three years, when this privilege was transferred to Roger Estrange. This last gave up the subtle Propagande preceding newspapers with the profit of very polemical political articles, so much so that the rights finally turned over to Muddiman in 1665. At this point in time Muddiman published the London Gazette , which still constitutes oldest British Journal existing nowadays. Although the publications of Henry Muddiman are the first account-returned regular of information of the country, they have still little in common with the modern newspapers: the handwritten writings of the journalist were indeed sent by the Poste to the subscribers, without no printed version being proposed with the sale with the general public. It was necessary, for that, to await The Athenian Mercury .
Except for a short bracket at the time of the crisis of the Exclusion Bill , during which one tried to remove all the publications, Muddiman preserved exclusive rights until the Glorieuse Revolution in 1688. With the regime change, it was perceived like too near to the old authorities and had to withdraw businesses. He died a little later in 1692.
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