Like May Bradley's version, Fred's includes some strays from 'Oxford City' but is essentially a 'Down the Green Groves' variant; and he gave it that title. He said he'd learned it from Gypsies in his youth. It's broadly similar to the Bradley text, but ordered rather differently. She is unlikely to have been his source.

You may recall, Steve, that we exchanged some emails on the subject of the 218/1478 split at the time Tim contacted me about it; late July 2007 that would be.

The confusion over classification in Roud isn't really a mistake on Steve Roud's part; in this case he merely followed long-established opinion in placing certain examples of 'Maria' with 'Oxford City'. As in many other cases (and to no small degree, thanks to Roud), we now have access to a far wider range of materials than did the collectors of the early C20, and can engage in the kind of taxonomic fine tuning that frequently wasn't possible for them.