_1555._ _The Augsburger Pact_ provides that the penalties specified in the papal regulations concerning books, etc., are to be enforced only in the territories classed as Catholic. _1570._ _The Diet of Speyer_ orders that printing offices are to be licensed only in imperial cities, court cities, and university towns and each printer must be duly placed under oath (_vereidet_) to uphold the imperial regulations.[79] The Imperial Police Regulations repeat the instructions of the Diet of Augsburg, with the modification that nothing was to be printed contrary to the Christian religion or to the Religious Pact of Augsburg. CHAPTER V PAPAL CENSORSHIP BEFORE THE INDEXES 1. Earlier papal utterances concerning the writings of the Reformation 1487–1521. 2. The Bull _Coenae Domini_ 1364–1586. =1. Earlier Papal Utterances Concerning the Writings of the Reformation, 1487–1521.= _1487._ _Papal Bull._ In 1487 was issued the first papal Bull having to do with the productions of the printing-press. It is entitled: _Bulla S. D. N. Innocentii contra Impressores Librorum Reprobatorum_, and was addressed by Pope Innocent VIII to seven “governments” as follows: Romana, Curia, Italia, Germania, Francia, Hispania, Anglia, and Scotia. The opening paragraph reads: “And, therefore, we who hold on earth the place of Him who came down from heaven to enlighten the minds of men and to disperse the darkness of error,” etc. _1516._ _Council of the Lateran._ The fifth Council of the Lateran, assembled in Rome, in 1516, under Leo X, adopted, with but one dissenting voice, a papal constitution which recited the injury to faith, morals, and public peace arising from the increasing number of books containing doctrines contrary to religion, or libellous attacks on individuals. It was ordered that thereafter no books should be printed without a preliminary examination and license. In Rome, the authority rested with the papal vicar and with the master of the palace and elsewhere with the bishop and inquisitor. The duties of censorship were thus shared between the bishops and the Inquisition. The former, as a rule, were engrossed with temporal cares and were negligent, and as Lea points out, there is no trace of their discharging in Spain the functions thus imposed on them. The inquisitors were active and aggressive, eager to extend their jurisdiction, and they formed the most convenient instrumentality to be utilised by the Church and the State for curbing the licentiousness of the press.[80]