 Oxford would establish it on university property, govern its operations, employ its staff, determine its printed work, and benefit from its proceeds.To that end, he petitioned Charles I for rights that would enable Oxford to compete with the Stationers' Company and the King's Printer, and obtained a succession of royal grants to aid it.These were brought together in Oxford's "Great Charter" in 1636, which gave the university the right to print "all manner of books".