In 1711, the Jesuit Daubenton writes to Fénelon: “The Inquisition has such a mass of business on its hands, and has available for its consideration so few men who are capable and who are ready to give attention to it, that a period of years may be required to secure the condemnation of a book, particularly if it is of considerable compass.” The control of the Inquisition, as of the Congregation, rested with the Dominicans. The commissary of the former and the secretary of the latter, always Dominicans, retained in their hands the continuity and the general direction of the business of their respective bodies. In 1633, Lucas Holstenius (a “consultor” appointed by Alexander XII) writes from Rome to Peiresc: “We have here a few learned men who would be glad to be of service to scholarly literature if there were any possibility of securing for their views any recognition.... But the opinions of scholars have no weight with these ignorant censors.... One of the cardinals who thinks of himself as an intelligent man and who has a large control of the business, says openly that he is in favour of condemning and burning practically all works of a humanistic character (_qui de literis humanioribus et de liberali eruditione agunt_) and of leaving in existence only the theological treatises, and the writings of a few jurists.... You will have heard of the recent condemnation of the scholarly works of Scaliger, Heinsius, Rivius, and Godenius.... My indignation grows and I find myself unwilling to attend any more sittings of the Congregation.... I speak thus, for your ear only, as here, it is perilous to make any complaint or opposition to such proceedings.”[31] In 1686, the learned Benedictine Mabillon, being in Rome, was asked by the Congregation to give a report on the writings of Vossius, and later he was appointed a “consultor.” In the compilation of the Roman Indexes of the 16th century, the announcement catalogues of the Frankfort Fair were largely utilised. As before pointed out, one result of this practice was to bring into the Index lists the titles of not a few books of but trifling importance (which otherwise would have been entirely lost sight of), of others which contained no doctrinal material and in fact nothing pernicious or objectionable, and of still others which, while announced as in preparation or in plan, never came into print at all. After 1600, the Fair catalogues appear to have been but little used, but information concerning published books was secured from the _Acta Eruditorum_, the _Journal des Savants_, and similar periodicals. Bourgeois is authority for the statement that after 1650, it was the routine, with both Inquisition and Congregation, to take up for consideration only such books as had been specifically denounced.