Susan: I've no idea at all if it was your transcription or Roberts & Barrands';  They get referred to a lot on the DT, but I've never heard any of their recordings, and I'm usually more familiar with other peoples' versions (from which I've tended to assume, probably quite unfairly, that they learnt theirs).  I'm just guessing, really, from what I have heard.  It certainly is an interesting process; I don't intend any criticism of anyone, but the way this particular song has apparantly changed in a fairly short space of time seems to make some useful points about the way aural transmission operates.  Sandy Paton pointed me to some of their sleeve notes (particularly useful in that discussion we had some time ago about The Wife of Usher's Well) but detailed references to Nowell Sing We Clear don't seem to be available just now.   I met Bob Pegg's ex-wife, Carol, earlier this year, and was thrilled when she borrowed my fiddle to play a couple of songs, which she doesn't do very often nowadays.  Have you heard any of the recordings they made together as "Mr. Fox"?  Wonderful stuff...

Malcolm