May as well mention that Oscar Brand recorded his yes modernized version of "Tom Bolynn" back in the '50s, so long ago that I guess it ain't "modern" any more! The melody is great: based on (or a variant of) that given by Downes & Siegmeister (whose version seems to come from an earlier Vermont collection).

Hugill's MS. has not yet been published. Will it ever be? I once wrote to ask Legman if he could make me a photocopy, which I swore on the grave of Bishop Percy never to publish. He declined. Presumably Hugill's "Brian O'Lynn" lyrics went to the tune of "Blow the Man Down." At least there are one or two harmless "Brian" stanzas given to that tune in Lomax & Lomax, ABFS.