in 1703 had to do with the French edition printed in Rouen in 1655. Selden’s _De jure naturali et gentium_, together with a number of his later treatises which had appeared between the years 1640 and 1679, were prohibited in 1714. Prideaux’s _The Old and the New Testament connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations_, printed in 1716, was prohibited in the French edition in 1732. =5. The Protestant Theologians of Germany, 1600–1750.=--The cancellation of Class I of the Index may be considered as constituting one of the more distinctive modifications of the activity or assertions of authority on the part of the Congregation of the Index. Through the 16th century, the view had obtained that in this class should be brought together practically all of the heretical authors who had ventured to treat of religious matters. After the Index of 1596, however, the attempt had been abandoned to specify in full the names of all of the works which on the ground of their heretical character came under the proscription of Rule II. After that time, it was considered sufficient to place under a general condemnation all works on religious subjects which came from writers outside of the Church. To this general principle, however, certain noteworthy exceptions were made. There continued to be a separate prohibition, by title, of books which had, on one ground or another, been brought to the attention of the Congregation. The decrees of 1686–1700, 1703–1709, included, in addition to certain lists of Protestant theological writings, a series of the works of jurists of which the treatise by Grotius above cited is a good example. The works so selected were for the most part concerned with questions as to the sources of authority, whether of Church or of State.