_1526._ _Wareham_ sends to Duvoisey, Bishop of Exeter, a mandate directing him to make search for certain English translations of the New Testament, which are “full of heretical pravity.” The copies secured are to be burned. The mandate includes, in addition to this reference to the New Testament, the titles of certain writings by “Luther, Tyndal, Huss, and Zwingle.”[47] Fox makes reference to a similar instruction from Tonstal, Bishop of London, to the archdeacons of his diocese. Tonstal specifies the same titles as those given in the list of Wareham. _1526._ _Henry VIII_ orders the publication of a catalogue of forbidden books which appears to be the first of the English prohibitions and, if to be classed as an Index, would rank with the earliest of Europe. The catalogue contains but eighteen titles, comprising certain of the productions of Luther, Zwingli, and Brenz, the _In Oseam_ of Huss, and four anonymous works. The editions referred to had been imported.[48] _1529._ _Henry VIII_ authorises the publication of catalogue number two, containing 85 works “imported by the adherents of heretical sects.” The 85 titles include 22 by Luther, 2 by Wyclif, 11 by Zwingli, 9 by Oecolampadius, etc. _1530._ _King Henry_ forbids the reading of the Scriptures in the vernacular. In the proclamation, the King takes the ground that there is no necessity for the reading of the Bible by the common people. They can secure more safely from their religious instructors all the Scripture teaching that is profitable. When the peril of the spread of heretical opinions has passed, it will be in order to permit translations of the Bible. For the present, however, all copies of the versions in English, French, German, or Dutch are to be delivered to the bishop.[49] _1530._ _Henry VIII_, in a proclamation, forbids the printing, importation, sale, or possession of books, whether printed or written, which contain doctrines antagonistic to the Catholic faith, or to the authority of the king, or to the laws of the land. The magistrates are instructed to take all measures necessary to root out the heresies. The proclamation enumerates further certain serious heresies in the writings of English authors. The first of these, taken from _The Book of the Wicked Mammon_, is: “Faith oonley doth justifie us.”[50] In a second royal proclamation of the same year, special prohibition is made of books printed abroad, all existing copies of which are to be delivered at once to the bishops.[51] _1531._ _A royal proclamation_ (_of Henry_), read at St. Paul’s Cross, specifies thirty English works the selling and reading of which is forbidden.