Jim - I was thinking just that last night - how interesting it would be to compare the contents of the book with the original sources (notes or recordings). I wasn't trying to detract from the importance or value of the publication in my original post - it's an absolutely fascinating book - but I was struck by the tone of the notes.

The words I quoted: The words, taken down from a peasant, were disentangled and partly re-written by the Rev. Canon Edward Mason sent a little shiver of distaste down my spine, I have to confess. Still, autres temps, autres moeurs, as we say in downtown Sussex...