no one has proven he did not collect the recruited collier,until it is proven ,then it is better not to attack him.

Lloyd wrote: "A set of this 18th century song was printed in Anderson's _Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect_ (1808)."

But Robert Anderson's Ballads (etc) isn't a collection of traditional songs - they're all Anderson's own work (and there aren't any other versions of "this 18th century song"). That's misrepresentation in itself.

Again, this has nothing to do with the quality of the song - I think Lloyd did us all a service by bringing the song back to life. But it's a shame he couldn't do it without falsifying the history.