Nobody has mentioned that in D'Urfey's Pills To Purge Melancholy, this is called "Joan's Ale Was New"; according to some, as a ref to the fact that Oliver Cromwell's wife's name was Joan, which seems to me probably a bit of post-hoc 'folk derivation'. But certainly, SFAICS, "Joan's Ale" could be an earlier usage for the title & lyric than the now much more familiar "Jones's".

~M~