It is somewhat curious that such works of English writers as have been considered by the framers of the Index, are placed almost exclusively in the prohibitory division, and in this are included in the first class, that is to say, under the heading of authors whose works, past, present, and future (_opera edita et edenda_), are absolutely prohibited. One of the few English books which have been mentioned by title (apart from the names of the authors) in the prohibitory Index is the version of the Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins. This is the book understood to be referred to by the title _Psalmes of Dauid in Englische Metre_. CHAPTER XIII THE INDEX OF ALEXANDER VII AND THE CONDEMNATION OF GALILEO--ROME, 1664 In 1664, was published at Rome the _Index Prohibitorius_ of Alexander VII. In the accompanying Bull, the Pope says that since the publication of the Index of Clement VIII, a number of books had been prohibited by his successors and by the Congregation of the Index, but no authoritative schedule of the same had been issued which presented in one comprehensive list the titles of the books and the names of their authors. He had, therefore, caused a new Index to be compiled which contained all the titles from the lists of Trent and of Clement, together with all the further prohibitions, and in which, for convenience of reference, the three classes of the Trent Index had been put together, which enabled the titles to be presented in one alphabeted list. The division into three classes of the books condemned had in any case been open to the objection that it had “tended to give the impression that the books of Class I were more pernicious than those of Classes II and III and their reading more reprehensible; while as a fact there were in the third class not a few works much wickeder than any in the other classes.” In addition to the titles of the prohibited books, this Index presents the complete series of the decrees since that of the Trent Index, under which the prohibitions were ordered. “The several regulations, condemnations, and prohibitions,” continues the rescript, “presented in this Index, we do hereby, under the Apostolic authority, confirm and approve as in force at this time and as binding on all the members of the Church; and we order that all universities, their associations, and individuals shall give obedience to the same without exception or reservation.” Then follow the specifications of penalties, seventeen in all, and instructions to bishops and inquisitors for the publication of the regulations and enforcement of the penalties. In 1665, the Secretary of the Index Congregation, Vincentius Fanus, published an edition of Alexander’s Index, with the omission of the Clementine lists and of the series of decrees.