Here are the liner notes for this song from the web site of Beautiful Joe Records:

10. THE BEAUTIFUL LANDLADY (Di lead) An early nineteenth-century street ballad. The tune used was collected from a Mrs Webb of Malvern, Worcestershire, in 1906. Attached to the song is an eighteenth-century dance tune, THE ALE WIFE AND HER BARREL, from "A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, adapted for the Fife, Violin or German Flute"; printed and sold by I. A. Aird, Glasgow (c.1780).