_1530._ _The King gives_ orders for the appointment of certain inquisitors of literature. The first group comprises two magistrates selected from the Parliament of Paris, and two divines selected by the College of the Sorbonne. This commission bears, in addition to the authority of the Crown and the instructions of the Parliament (which is, it must be borne in mind, a high court of justice), an instruction from the Archbishop of Paris to take measures for the repression of heretical literature. The lists of the prohibited and of the permitted or privileged books were published under the authority of the officials of the Parliament by the guild of printer-publishers. The scholarship of the divines of the Sorbonne was called upon by the Parliament for the determination of questions of heresy in doctrinal and religious works, a course which had the natural result of bringing upon the college an increasing measure of influence in the shaping of the Indexes and in the control of book-production. _1542._ _The Parliament of Paris_ issues an order prohibiting the printing of any book without the approval of the rector of the university and the deans, and directing the rector to appoint two members of each faculty to conduct the examination of the books submitted. It was added later that, for Bibles and works of religion, the signatures of not less than four doctors of divinity were to be required. In the same year, it was ordered that all bales of books arriving in Paris must be opened in the presence of four of the certified book-dealers (_libraires jurés_) and examined by the divines appointed by the rector. The examiners were to supply to the royal procurator a list of the books the sale of which was authorised. The selling of any books the titles of which were not included in the list, was forbidden under severe penalties.[66] _1542._ _The Parliament of Paris_ issues an order to the Sorbonne to prepare a catalogue of prohibited books. No copies of this catalogue have been preserved, but the Paris collection contains a copy of the supplement issued in March, 1543. This presents sixty-five titles, put together without any order, chiefly of works by well-known German and French reformers, printed in Latin and in French, together with a few anonymous French books. This catalogue, while the work of scholarly compilers, is described by Reusch as full of blunders.[67] _1544._ _The Faculty of the Sorbonne_ issues an alphabetical catalogue of all the books which it had thus far condemned. _1547._ This catalogue is reprinted with a supplement of forty-seven titles, the last Index compiled under the direction of the college.