I was looking back at your OP, Joe and I think you may have been after "The Highwayman Outwitted" though the two may have been conflated at some point. I have two versions in broadsides that I found in the Bodleian and this one which a note I have put at the bottom says "Noted by Frank Kidson from Mrs. Kate Thompson of Knaresborough, Yorkshire."

The Highwayman Outwitted
Traditional

It's of a rich farmer in Cheshire,
To the market his daughter would go,
Not thinking that any would harm her,
She'd often been that way before.

She was met by a rusty highwayman,
Who caused the young damsel to stand.
"Your money and clothes now deliver
Or else your sweet life is at hand."

He stripped this fair damsel stark naked,
And gave her his bridle to hold,
And there she stood shivering and shaking,
Near starved unto death with the cold.

She put her left foot in the stirrup,
And mounted his horse like a man;
Over hedges and ditches she galloped,
Crying, "Catch me, bold rogue, if you can."

She rode over hedges and ditches
And places she knew very well
She left him with a parcel of farthings
The sum of five shillings to tell

The bold rogue he soon followed after,
Which caused him to puff and to blow.
But the highwayman never could catch her,
Till she came to her own father's door.

"Oh daughter! dear daughter! what's happened?"
"Oh father! to you I will tell;
I was met by a rusty highwayman,
Thank God! I am here and I'm well."

"Put the grey mare in the stable,
And spread a white sheet on the ground."
They searched the highwayman's portmanteau,
And counted out five thousand pounds.

Dear daughter this is a good portion
And I will give you five hundred more
I think that will be a good portion
To keep the old wolf from the door.