The tune is also known as "Deil Stick the Minister", in David Young's collection of dances of the year 1740. (No relation to the modern Shetland tune of the same name that I can see). It has survived in tradition to the present day in that form, as a slow reel.

Anybody know of a song text that relates to that title?

I doubt the Jacobite use of allegorical symbols had anything to do with serious risk of repressive measures. They just enjoyed feeling persecuted and the (completely transparent) allegorical machinery was literary convention.

But we may be about to see a new era of coded poetry as a result of this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7068945.stm

(The first conviction in the UK for thought crime since the time of Thomas Muir, I think).