A comment: Interesting to see, up to this point, how very little overlap there seems to be between chanties and so-called forebitters. If one looks at the picture presented of the shanty repertoire by Stan Hugill --in part because his aim was to be so inclusive-- we see that very many of the items are songs that were generally understood to be non-chanties but which had supposedly been "used as chanties" at one time or another. However, in the 19th century references we have not really seen that. I will be interested to see at what time that might have started happening more, and/or what writers may have started mixing them (e.g. the situation that Bullen may have been responding to in 1914 when he had to be firm about excluding certain kinds of songs from his collection).