The British and Foreign Bible Society had been established to promote the Authorized Version, which is the King James Bible. But the BFBS soon found itself wandering far from its original evangelical roots. This upset many other Bible Societies, who perceived the BFBS to not be upholding its original stated goals. The "Plea for the Canon of Scripture" was written to address that point. Those wishing to find out more about the History of the Bible Versions in English can find them in books such as: The Puritan Bible, which is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/ThePuritanBibleAndOtherContemporaneoustestamentProtestantVersions or Our Own English Bible, which is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/OurOwnEnglishBiblehistoryOfTheBibleByW.J.Heaton Other material on the topic can be found under the search " apocrypha bible society".