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1/17/1837 in Northamptonshire: pitched battle between Keepers & Poachers.
The Keepers won. At trial, the Poachers had excellent character
witnesses, were hard workers & had many children to support so the court
inclined to mercy. They were sentenced to a mere one year hard.
In Eighteen hundren and thirty-seven,
As plainly does appear,
A bloody scene was felt most keen,
Till death it did draw near.
"Sudborough Heroes," A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer
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