Many thanks to both of you. I'd rather go with the English tune than the Scottish one, though, because I think the song almost certainly originated in England.

Many thanks for your scan Steve. I subsequently managed to find and download the entire Chappel book in PDF format from here, and created a 1-page PDF from it of page 170, with the sheet music for the tune, and I've uploaded that to here.

I think it's amazing that this tune was clearly considered to be the traditional one in England, from when it was written in the 17th century up until at least 1855 when Chappel 's book was published - and yet it seems to have been completely forgotten by folk singers of the 20th century - as far as I can tell no one has ever recorded Little Musgrave to that tune!

Steve, can you tell how old the tune is? I assume from the notes in Chappel that it must be 17th century, but can you place its likely date more accurately than that?

Anyway, I'm going to start learning the song to that tune now. Many thanks for all your help! I really appreciate it.

Dave