=4. The Protestant Theologians of England, 1676–1732.=--Up to the time of Benedict XIV, none of the English theological writings which had been printed in the vernacular received attention at the hands of the compilers of the Indexes. Certain works were condemned which had been originally issued in Latin or of which French translations had been printed. The English writers begin to receive attention after 1676, although even in these later Indexes the selections, as in the case of the writers of Germany and Holland, are curiously incidental and have apparently been made with no consistent principle. The list for the 17th century includes among the more noteworthy titles the following: _Reformatio Ecclesiae Anglicanae quibus gradibus inchoata et perfecta sit_, London, 1603; the writings of Bishop Hall († 1656); the works of the scientist Robert Boyle, founder of the Boyle lectures (1627–91); the Polyglot Bible of Walton; the _Synopsis Criticorum_ of Reginald Pole; the _Cantabrigensis tributa_ of Thomas James; the _Gravissimae Quaestiones de Christ. Ecclesiarum_, of James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh; certain works of Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) (Casaubon was by birth a Swiss, but in connection with his long residence and the place of publication of the greater portion of his books, he came to be classed with English scholars); the latest work of Casaubon to be condemned, the title of which has been continued in modern Indexes, is the _Corona Regia_, a panegyric of James I; the _Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus parricidas Anglicanos_ (This was first printed in The Hague in 1652, and later in London in 1655. It constituted an answer to Milton’s essay _Pro populo Anglicano defensio_. The author was later identified as Pierre du Moulin, a canon in Canterbury); _The History of the Reformation of England_ of Burnet (1643–1715) and the same author’s _History of his Own Times_ (These two books are described in the Index in the French editions. Burnet’s other writings escaped condemnation); Robert Baillie († 1662), _Operis historici et chronologici a creatione mundi ad Constantinum magnum_, printed in Amsterdam in 1668; Pearson’s _Exposition of the Creed_; the sermons of Bishop Sherlock (in the French version) and those of Archbishop Tillotson; a treatise on _Christian Perfection_ by Lucas; Bartley’s _Apology for the True Christian_ (printed in the French version in 1702, prohibited in 1712); Andrew Marvelle’s († 1678) _An Account of the Growth of Popery and Absolute Government in England_ (1675–76). (This was prohibited in its French edition; the Parliament had, shortly after its first prohibition, offered a reward of £50 for the identification of the author.) Williams, Bishop of Chester, finds place in the Index in connection with his treatise on the _Discovery of a New World_, in which the author undertakes to prove that the moon is inhabited. This had been first printed in 1638; the condemnation