Ross - the 'Professor Moorman' referred to in the notes is the author. Here's the title page & foreword of the book it appears in:

SONGS OF THE RIDINGS

BY

F. W. MOORMAN

EDITOR OF "YORKSHIRE DIALECT POEMS, 1673-1915'

LONDON

ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET
1918


I DEDICATE
THIS VOLUME TO THE
YORKSHIRE MEMBERS OF THE
WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION

PREFACE

ABOUT two years ago I published a collection of Yorkshire dialect poems, chosen from many authors and extending over a period of two
hundred and fifty years. The volume was well received, and there are abundant signs that the interest in dialect literature is steadily growing in all parts of the county and beyond its borders.
What is most encouraging is to find that the book has found an entrance into the homes of Yorkshire peasants and artisans where the works of our great national poets are unknown. I now essay
the more venturesome task of publishing dialect verses of my own. Most of the poems contained in this little volume have appeared, anonymously, in the Yorkshire press, and I have now decided to reissue them in book form and with my name on the title-page.
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Found here.