_2._ _1570._ _Antwerp._ _Philip II and Duke of Alva._ This is a reprint of the Index of 1569, with the exception that the Tridentine lists are given without interpolations. The lists following are the same as those of the previous year. After the edict of the King, printed in French, Flemish, and Latin, follow the words: _cum Appendice in Belgio ex mandato Regiae Cathol. Majestatis confecta_. The wording of the edict, which bears date February, 1564, emphasises the claim of the King that all censorship should emanate from his own authority. The execution of the edict is committed to the Duke of Alva and then to the governors of each province. The most essential provision is that within three months after the publication of the statute, all the condemned books should be burned, and possession of copies should, therefore, be unlawful. The responsibility for the compilation rests with Arius Montanus, the scholar who had edited the great polyglot Bible, published by Plantin. All books partially condemned or appointed to be expurgated were to be brought to the magistrate of the place and corrected according to the judgment of the council. The usual penalties are added. The lists include titles in Latin, in French, in Flemish, and in Spanish. This Index includes the first index reference to the term _Taxae_, under the words _Praxis et Taxa officinae poenitentiariae Papae_. A specification of the application of the term _Taxa_ will be given later. The term appears originally to have been used to denote the official fees covering the cost of the censorship. Later, there was, however, some extension of its purport. One detail in this Index of 1570 is the including in it of the lists of condemned Bibles and Testaments (with some additions) which had appeared in the Roman Index of 1559 but which had for some reason been omitted from the Tridentine Index.