Steve Gardham wrote, It hadn't occurred to me before you mentioned it. Hales is not a big name in my consciousness, but Furnivall certainly is. FWIW, that is as it should be, I would say. Furnivall is one of the great names of nineteenth century English literary scholarship. John Hales was mostly a scholar of Edmund Spenser and didn't do anything else of significance to folk music scholars that I know of. And he was too squeamish to do the "Loose and Humorous Songs" in the Percy Folio; Furnivall did that solo.
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