It's time for a couple of acknowledgments. _Fishermen's Ballads and Songs of the Sea_ is a very rare item; the original print run cannot have been large, and it was probably regarded as a book of local interest only and not widely acquired by libraries (which would tend to discard it after some decades if they happen to have it, because of low circulation). So it is that not even the Gloucester Library possesses a copy. They, however, did identify the Procter brothers for me, and directed me to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, which has one of the two copies in known locations. The Mariners' Museum Library supplied photocopies promptly and graciously. I really love these people; without them this sort of investigation would be hopeless.

Stephen