The Apocrypha and the 1611 King James - a Series by Bryan Ross

In preparation for an upcoming debate on several books in the King James Version's "Apocrypha" section, I came across a very interesting series of five videos by Bryan Ross (link to playlist).  I felt like there is very little I could criticize about this series, and what little criticism I could offer would be things as trivial as what I believe to be "speak-os" by Ross or in one place where I think he conflated "wont" (the somewhat archaic English word) with "want" due to the quality of the scanned document he was reading from.    

Ross offers a brief gospel presentation at the end of each video, but I don't know anything (either good or bad) about Ross' theology more generally. I definitely found his research regarding the word "Easter" to be very helpful in advancing the issue of the KJV's usage of that term in one place in the New Testament (it certainly was helpful in persuading me to revise my own position).  I must acknowledge that I did not attempt to fact-check things like his presentation of data on how many editions of the KJV include the apocrypha.   I did not see any videos replying his series, if they exist.

His series refers to an article of his, which I think he either did or was planning to minorly revise.  A version of this article was criticized by SoCal Preston in a video, which prompted Ross's response.  I believe the article (in some form) can be found at the following link (link).

The general takeaway from the series (and the article itself) is that the inclusion of the Apocrypha in the 1611 KJV should not be taken as suggesting that King James himself, nor the translators individually or collectively, in any way considered the Apocrypha to be Scripture, in the sense of being inspired, canonical writings.  One minor caveat I would offer is that in the 1500s and 1600s, some authors still used the word "Scripture" or even "Old Testament" to describe non-canonical and uninspired books in a way that we would not today.  There is a lot more that could be said on this point.

Postscript/Update:

Bryan Ross's playlist stands in stark contrast to a video called, "The Apocrypha Apostasy," which - while it raises a few points of interest, I cannot recommend.  The biggest point of interest was that the TAA video, toward the end, names two other gentlemen (not Mr. Preston) who are also trying to advocate for the Apocrypha while still apparently remaining some kind of Non-Roman Catholic.