From the 'New Oxford Book of Carols' regarding 'While Shepherds Watched' p144 - Tune V, now universally known as 'Cranbrook', is one of the earliest and certainly the best known of the enormous number composed by the remarkable cordwainer (shoemaker) and musician Thomas Clark, who became the leading Dissenting composer of the late Georgian period. The setting we give is the earliest we have found..... We prefer this to the blander revisions that the composer made for successive publications. Clark included the tune in a form close to the manuscript in his first publication, 'A Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes' (London 1805). Clark's preferred text was Phillip Dodderidge's 'Grace! 'tis a charming sound'...... Salvationists sing the tune to to Isaac Watts's 'Come Ye That Love the Lord' but it is better known throughout the English speaking world to the Yorkshire words 'On Ilkla Moor baht 'at'.