_1557._ _Francis I_ arranges with the Pope, Paul IV, for the appointment as Inquisitors-General of the Cardinals Lorraine, Bourbon, and Châtillon, to whom was confided the supervision, under royal authority, of the inspection of books. _1559._ _The Parliament_ orders all those possessing doctor’s degrees to report to the faculty of the college the titles of heretical or suspicious books. _1562._ _The Parliament_ again orders the college to compile an Index, but the work was never completed.[71] Under royal edicts, the prohibitions in the catalogues of the Sorbonne were made binding on all citizens. A further evidence that the final authority in the matter of censorship was retained by the State, is the order issued in 1546 by Francis I that the Bibles of Robert Estienne were not to be included in the Sorbonne Indexes. Another example is a notice which Espencé had succeeded in having attached to the orders of 1547, directing that the prohibition should not be enforced in the case of two books the titles of which were already on the list of books condemned by the Sorbonne. The Index of 1544 comprises five divisions: _a_, works in Latin, by known authors, arranged alphabetically; _b_, anonymous works in Latin; _c_, works in French by known authors; _d_, anonymous works in French; _e_, French versions of the Scriptures. The lists include no writers of whom all the works are condemned (Class I of the Roman Indexes). Among the better known names may be mentioned: Erasmus, Faber, Ferus, Peter Martyr, Wyclif, Huss, Corvinus, Osiander, etc. An introduction to the fifth part emphasises the peril of placing in the hands of simple and unscholarly readers versions in the vernacular of the Scriptures, and refers to the evil results produced with such heretics as the Waldenses, the Albigenses, and the like. In 1562, there is record of the seizure at some French port by M. de Bourbon of a collection of wine casks packed with books which had been sent from Germany, and which Bourbon found to be of the “most distressing character.” These books the lieutenant consigned to the flames, having apparently taken the responsibility of himself acting as censor.[72] _1577._ _Henry III_ issues an edict modifying, in behalf of the Protestants, the regulations of the edict of Chateaubriand. No books are to be sold without the permit of the local magistrates, or as far as concerns the works of the adherents of the so-called reformed religion, without the approval of special commissioners to be appointed by Parliament. =5. Regulations in Spain, 1521–1551, concerning the Production and the Use of Books.=