Not mentioned by Malcolm, but he discussed these songs under "On Monday Morning" in Notes on Songs, p. 104, of his revision of the Penguin Book of English Folksongs- "Classic English Folk Songs," 2003, The English Folk Dance & Song Society.

There seem to be a large number of these songs about unsatisfactory wives stemming from the 18th century, including Charles Dibdin's "The Tidy One."
(It must have been a trying period for husbands).