Well English Folkfan solved number 10, well done, I owe you a pint. Let me know how this transfer might be arranged: where are you? By the by, you quote Pete Cooper quoting me. Here is the original from my life of William Irwin; I have put the whole section in because I find thje Isle of Man bit amusing.

"Another source of money was the Christmas custom of hunsupping. This is also spelt hansopping, and derives from the name of the tune "The Hunt is Up". (Over the water in the Isle of Man the tune name has got even more removed from its origin, and turns up as "The Wandescope" or "Unnysup", complete with Gaelic etymology). Anyway, in the Lake District, hunsupping involved going round the village at night on Christmas Eve, wishing the inhabitants "Merry Christmas" by name outside each house, and playing the old tune (which is called "Hunt's Up through the Woods" in Langdale). The householder would then oblige with a contribution. Houses that couldn't be reached on the Christmas Eve round could be visited later over the twelve days of Christmas. Intriguingly, the £3-4-5½ for the 1851 Langdale hunsupping doesn't appear in the diary till January 14, 1852. This has led some folklorists to suppose that fiddlers out hunsupping went back weeks later to collect the money. I think the explanation is simpler: I would guess that, like many a busker since, he stacked the small change in a jar on the mantelpiece, and didn't count it till the dark days in the New Year when he had real need of the halfpennies and farthings. He had other earnings paid in bigger coins to see him over Christmas.

Wordsworth gives a good account of the Grasmere hunsupping in his introduction to his "Duddon Sonnets". It's well worth a read in its entirety, but here is a taster:
"Keen was the air, but could not freeze
Nor check the music of their strings
So stout and hardy were the band
That scraped the chords with strenuous hand"
Stout and hardy would be excellent words to describe Irwin, a man who walked into the Duddon valley from Langdale, but it wasn't actually him that Wordsworth was writing about, the poem was written in 1819, just before Irwin was born. It is tempting to wonder whether Irwin met Wordsworth. Highly likely, I should imagine, they were both prominent people in the same locality for many years from 1840. However the Poet, unfortunately, had a keen ear for the inner music of nature but little or none for that of his fellow men: so we don't hear much from him about fiddlers in pubs or local dances. Leech gatherers, on the other hand, found it easy to get his undivided attention. It may be that an account of an Irwin/Wordsworth meeting may exist in the pages of some contemporary diarist, and will turn up sooner or later when someone spots the reference. Until then, we can only speculate.