The Herefordshire Christmas carol, "This is the Truth Sent from Above", was one of several rediscovered and preserved by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Cecil Sharp collected an eight stanza version of the carol from a Mr. Seth Vandrell and Mr. Samuel Bradley of Donninglon Wood in Shropshire, although Sharp notes that a longer version existed in a locally printed carol book. Ralph Vaughan Williams obtained a different, Dorian mode version of the carol at King's Pyon, Herefordshire in July 1909 with help from Ella Mary Leather, the Herefordshire folklorist who had first collected it from the local oral tradition. This version, which contains only four stanzas, is therefore sometimes referred to as the "Herefordshire Carol". Vaughan Williams first published the melody in the Folk-Song Society Journal in 1909 (where it is credited as being sung by a Mr W. Jenkins of King's Pyon). It was printed in Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Carols (1911), Vaughan Williams' Eight Traditional English Carols (1919) and Walters' A Good Christmas Box (1847). It is included in The New Oxford Book of Carols (#150).