After his death, his Apology for John Fero was inserted in the expurgatory index.
It may be said that the expurgatory index drawn up in Spain is more injurious to the rights of the sovereign and the instruction of his subjects, than that of Rome.
All doctrinal works had been forbidden to be in the vulgar tongue for fifty years, by the expurgatory index of the council, and by the inquisitions of Rome and Madrid.
This list is known by the name of the Expurgatory Index of the Duke of Alva.
It is this index which is still in force, but the prohibitions and expurgatory measures have since been multiplied.
The last general expurgatory index, published in 1747, is still remembered.
The simple Index is a list of condemned books which are never to be opened; but the Expurgatory Index indicates those only prohibited till they have undergone a purification.
It was both a prohibitory and an expurgatory Index in one stout volume.
When the expurgatory Index of Quiroga appeared, in 1584, we have seen that owners were empowered to do this and that they were negligent, which perhaps explains why the privilege was subsequently withdrawn.
This is emphasized in the Expurgatory Index of Quiroga, in 1583, of which the twelfth rule is directed against all representations of sacred persons or objects which savor of irrision or irreverence.
It was inevitable that it should wage incessant warfare with the countless editions of the Bible with Protestant notes and commentaries, and we have seen how industriously Valdés prepared for his expurgatory Index of the Scriptures in 1554.
The whole subject of expurgatory oaths was discussed, and all that could be said on either side was fully and elaborately presented.
It is difficult to speak of the whole system of expurgatory oaths for past conduct without a shudder at the suffering and oppression they were not only capable of effecting but often did effect.
On the First, Final, and Suppressed Volume of the only Expurgatory Index of Rome, by the Rev.
I am relieved by it from the necessity of describing more particularly the copy of the first, and Roman, Expurgatory of 1607; for the copy in my possession agrees exactly in title with that of the Bodleian.
