This with my best respect,
Yours ever,
Joseph Mead.[¹]
[¹] This letter has been transcribed, somewhat inaccurately in “The Court and Times of James the First;” ... [Robert Folkestone Williams.] ... London: ... 1848. Vol. ii., pp. 250–251. It is also to be found in (Notes & Queries, 2nd S. xi. 127., Feb. 16, 1861) “Modern Apocryphal Apocalypse,” by Moses Margoliouth, LL.D., PH.D.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, James I. 1619–1623.... Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green.... London ... 1851.
p. 247 April 18? (1621).
96. Petition of Sir Hen. Finch to the King. Disclaims the opinion which His Majesty thinks is asserted in his book; is sorry for having written so unadvisedly; begs liberty and restoration to favour.
p. 248 April 18, 1621 London:
Chamberlain [to Carleton.]
97. ... Serjeant Finch is committed for his book on the conversion of the Jews.