: "the people" are implicitly defined as all those persons who
: aren't kings or priests

Can't we admit Father Sydney McEwan, Father John MacMillan of Barra and Father Angus MacDonell of blessed memory?

And of course the Rev Sabine B-G. Being a priest gives you a lot of opportunities for song collecting.


> I wonder if Chambers et al was a folkie?

Chambers was somewhere between historian and folklorist. His book of traditional rhymes of Scotland was an impressive bit of work. He was a younger contemporary of C.K. Sharpe, and Sharpe seems to have genuinely liked him (he didn't like a lot of people).