This is the first publication of Robert’s containing the specification of his title as “Printer to the King.” His acknowledged erudition and the importance of the scholarly undertakings carried on by him had long before attracted the attention and the favour of Francis, and in 1539, in the thirty-sixth year of the typographer’s age, the King conferred upon him the honourable distinction of _Imprimeur Royal_ for works in Hebrew and Latin. After June, 1539, Robert styles himself _Regius Typographus_ or _Librarius_, or _Regius Hebraicarum et Latinarum Literarum Typographus_. In 1540, on the death of Neobarius, the first who had received the title of “Printer in Greek to the King,” this distinction also was conferred upon Estienne. The official recognition and approval given by the Crown to his undertakings could not, however, save these from the censure and indignant opposition of the divines, and they did what they could to check and to discourage his publications. Robert was brought into special jeopardy and trouble through an impression of the Decalogue executed (in 1540) in large characters, and printed in the form of a hanging map for affixing to the walls of chambers and school-rooms. Such an undertaking seems to our present understanding innocent enough, whether considered from a Romanist or from a Protestant point of view, but in this publication of the Ten Commandments, the divines appear to have discovered little less mischief than in all the heresies of Luther.[10] Robert relates that the orthodox censors caused a counter impression of the Decalogue to be prepared by one Johannes Andreas, in which the first two commandments were combined into one, omitting the prohibition of making and worshipping images, and the tenth commandment was divided into two in order to make up the denary number.