The notes quoted at ingeborg.org are copied (without acknowledgement so far as I can see, which is very bad form) from Roy Palmer, The Sound of History, 1988, p 104. The song indicated is also copied without acknowledgement from Palmer's book; the text is from Frank Peel, The Risings of the Luddites, p 47, while the tune to which Palmer set it is The Gallant Poachers, as sung by George Dunn of Quarry Bank, Staffordshire, 1971 (see Folk Music Journal, 2, no. 4 (1973), 276.

Another reference quoted above is from http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Luddite-History.htm; 'The Achievements of "General Ludd": A Brief History of the Luddites': Kirkpatrick Sale, in The Ecologist, v. 29, n. 5, August/September 99.

It's always best to identify sources, as so much gross misinformation is published on the internet. Certainly it's unwise to believe anything you find in the various iterations of 'Wikipedia' unless they acknowledge the sources they have drawn on (or, all too often, plagiarised); although in this particular case the information seems to follow usual patterns; wherever they got it.