Folk songs are written, Sometimes they evolve sometimes they do not, shoals of herring was written[ ittmat or may not havebeen written intentionally as a folk song but it became accepted without any involvement.
Recruited collier was allegedly written by Lloyd. your scholastic assessment of Reynardine has been doubted not by me but by others on this forum, who hve suggested both the above songs were written by Lloyd, it was you who accused me of crticising Lloyd, that was untrue it was others who criticised him from a scholastic point of view , please getyour facts correct. ARE YOU SUGGESTING RENARDINE EXISTED AND lLOYD ADDED TO IT[if that is the case he wrote part of a song with the intention of passing it off as a folk song], and the final product was partly written with the intention of becoming a folk song, since we have to be pedantic.