I don't have Baring-Gould's version, and hadn't looke for it in Steve Roud's broadside or folksong indexes. I hadn't seen Jean Ritchie's before. I have the one by Steeleye Span. I had thought the latter was an English song, but I haven't run across it in any English collection. I was stunned about 3 weeks ago when Dick Spottswood on WAMU played an American recording of it of c 1924.

Note the first verse of Ritchie's is an imitation of the 1st verse of Henry Carey's "The Ladies Case", c 1730-32

How hard is the fortune of all womenkind,
They're alway contolled, they're always confined,
Controlled by their parents until they're made wives,
Then slaves to their husbands for the rest of their lives.
There's another verse by Carey, and two more were added later. I've seen a copy on a single sheet song with music where the tune (by Mr. Gough) was completely screwed up by the engraver. There's a copy with good music in 'The Muses Delight', 1754.