During this year, Estienne goes on to say, there were instituted against him on the part of the Sorbonne, various rigorous proceedings. His house was frequently searched for heretical works, and in order to avoid being arrested, he was not infrequently compelled to absent himself from home and to betake himself for safety to the King’s Court. This description of a publisher taking refuge at Court in order to protect himself against the violence of officials who were (at least nominally) the King’s censors, throws a curious light on both the strength and the weakness of the Crown. With all the authority of the kingdom at his command, Francis was evidently unable to put any restriction upon the operations of the ecclesiastical censors, who in their dogmatic and unruly zeal were doing what was in their power to throw the influence of the University against the literary development of France and of Europe. On the other hand, the Doctors of the Sorbonne, although backed by the authority of Rome, were not strong enough, at least for a number of years, to put a stop to the publication in Catholic Paris of works stigmatised by them as dangerously heretical. In 1541, undismayed by the dissatisfaction and continued threats of the Sorbonne, Robert put forth a Latin Pentateuch, entitled “Libri Moysi quinque cum annotationibus,” etc., in folio, and as a companion volume, a “Novum Testamentum Latine, cum brevibus annotationibus,” in octavo. This last was sharply attacked on the ground that the editor (in this case the publisher himself) had expressed himself objectionably on the subjects of purgatory and confession. 1542. He published, as a companion to his “Cicero,” an edition in quarto of “Quintiliani Institutiones Oratoriæ.” 1543. Appeared a new impression of the entire works of “Cicero,” the demand for whose writings appeared to be steadily increasing. 1544. Editions were printed in octavo of a number of the Latin historians, including “Sallust” and “Suetonius.” 1545. The completion of the quarto edition of the Hebrew Scriptures, issued in twenty-four parts, which Maittaire describes as a magnificent work. In this year appeared also, printed in folio, the magnificent series of the Greek ecclesiastical writers, the Greek texts in which were printed with the royal Greek characters recently cast under instructions from the King. The series bears the title “Ecclesiastica Historia Eusebii, Socratis, Theodoriti, Theodori, Sozomeni, Evagrii, Græce.” To the “Historia” Robert prefixed a Greek epistle, in which, with what Maittaire calls Attic eloquence, he has celebrated the praises of Francis I., extolling at once the munificence of the King and the discriminating support given by him to the highest literary undertakings. “Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicæ Demonstrationes, Libri X., Græce.” Folio.