“Three Score and Ten” was a poem written by a fisherman (who survived the said storm) in order to publish it and raise funds for the widows and orphans. Even then, he changed the ruddy month just for poetic convenience."

1: "Threee Score and Ten" was not the title that William Delf gave his POEM which in words and number of verses was far different from the song entitled "Three score and ten" collected in 1957 from master mariner J. Pearson of Filey, a member of the Filey Fishermen’s Choir who had preserved the song in their repertoire.

2. No evidence at all that William Delf was at sea on the night of the storm so to say that he was actually there is conjecture and to say that he survived the storm is no more remarkable than saying the the rest of the population of the British Isles survived the storm - absence being the best defence.

3. William Delf wrote a poem, which was printed in broadsheet form (Which according to Jim Carroll makes it NOT Folk), the poem was then transposed and fitted with a tune. Nobody knows when or by whom, the words and number of verses changed and it acquired a chorus and that was the song collected from J. Pearson of Filey.