Anyway,
before the mud-slinging erupted we were discussing Motherwell's excellent contributions. I have had another thorough look through McCarthy's excellent article and it has prompted me to go through Motherwell's Minstrelsy in detail analysing the sources using his own notes and those in Child based on the Mss.

To repeat my wishes expressed earlier in a slightly more coherent way.
We already have easy access to:
Child's notes in ESPB
Crawfurd 2 vol set by Lyle.
What info there is in Minstrelsy A&M, but there must be a lot of useful unpublished material left in the manuscript and notebook, particularly the bawdy stuff. Who else would dearly like to see this published? Both of these are available in Glasgow and at Harvard.

I've done a bit of number crunching with Minstrelsy and will post the results later tonight.