These women are from a favored province of Sweden, and for a long time enjoyed a monopoly of the many ferry-boats of the city, it having been accorded to them by royal consent in consideration of the patriotism exhibited by them, and of aid which the women of that ancient province gave to the cause of the throne at a critical moment in Swedish history.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Until 1465, save for some possible Dutch experiments, Germany enjoyed the monopoly of printing.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Liberalism fixed its attention mainly on the artificial restrictions, the privileges, the services, the legal bonds by which monopoly and inequality were kept up, and it thought a perfect state of society would be brought about if only every chain were snapped and every fetter stripped away.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae