Under the responsibility of these three authorities, is issued, in a preamble to the catalogue, an edict, with the following regulations: Ecclesiastics and laymen alike are prohibited, under penalty of excommunication and of bodily punishment, from preaching or reading (aloud?) the Scriptures, either in church or elsewhere, without a written permit from the archbishop. The printing, selling, possessing, reading, etc. of books classed as heretical is prohibited. The penalty is for each offence, excommunication, and a fine of one hundred scudi. The fine is to be divided equally between the informer, the Inquisition, and the imperial representative. Persons concealing books, or withholding information, incur the same penalties. Printers, binders, and booksellers must, within a term of two months, deliver to the authorities a sworn schedule of the books handled by them, with supplementary lists from month to month, and the sale, or the possession of, any book not specified in such schedules brings upon the dealer excommunication and a fine of ten scudi for each book. Dealers who deliver up within ten days after receipt copies of prohibited or of heretical books are freed from the penalties. Any person having knowledge of the presence in the diocese of Milan of a heretic or of one suspected of heresy, and failing to give information within thirty days, falls under excommunication plus a fine of fifty scudi. The same penalty comes to one who renders assistance to a Lutheran or other heretic. A Lutheran or other heretic who recants and who denounces a fellow heretic receives one fourth of the penalty. The Index contains nearly five hundred titles, arranged alphabetically, the names of the authors and those of the books being listed together. It is therefore much more considerable than that of Casa. The list of authors all of whose works (present and future) are condemned (corresponding to Class I of the Roman Indexes) is proportionately large. _10._ _1551._ _Valentia, Valladolid, and Toledo._ _Emperor Charles V and Archbishop Valdes.--Index prohibitory._ Compiled under the supervision of Fernando Valdes, Archbishop of Seville and Inquisitor-General. The Emperor Charles sent to Valdes the Louvain Index of 1550 with instructions to have the same published in Spain. The Spanish issue includes as a supplement a list of the books which up to that date had been prohibited in Spain. The title reads: _Catalogi librorum reprobatorum, et praelegendorum ex judicio Academiae Louaniensis. Cum edicto Caesarae maiestatis evulgate. Valentiae, typis Joannis Mey Flandri MDLI, mandato Dominorum de consilio sanctae generalis Inquisitionis._ (Portions of the edition bear the imprints of Valladolid and Toledo).