That's very interesting Jim. I certainly wouldn't doubt Tom, but as to his source? well without a name and lineage I would be inclined to stick with Pecker. He certainly didn't seem like a man who would claim something as his own when it wasn't.

It is, I agree, very easy to get composers names wrong in trad. Its done all the time. But like I say, If a man wrote a tune/song and then found out another was claiming it as his own, there would be trouble.
That's a very different issue as to an authors name being quoted wrongly through ignorance. These things happen and are generally cleared up pretty quickly IMO.