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Against Our Laws Contrary

from A Fair Field by The Memory Band

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The melody comes from a ballad known as‘The Oakham Poachers or The Lamentation of Young Perkins. The ballad relates the tale of brothers John, Robert and George Perkins, all stonemasons, who along with two other men were discovered poaching by ganekeepers in Empingham Old Woods on the Northampton estate in the county of Rutland on 20th Janury 1833. When confronted they shot and seriously wounded gamekeeper Thomas Peach "in a very tender part, between the thigh and the abdomen...of a most dangerous nature" according to the statement made by the surgeon at the ensuing trial. When the two other poachers William Lomas and William Claypole were apprehended it was Claypole who pointed the finger at John Perkins for shooting Peach and Robert and George for injuring Peach's assistant Jonathan Morris. At the trial Claypole gave evidence against them and all three brothers were convicted. John Perkins was hanged in Oakham and Robert and George were both transported.Claypole and Lomas walked free.

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from A Fair Field, released November 27, 2016
(Cracknell) Branch Music Ltd
Olie Brice - double bass
Stephen Cracknell - guitars, dulcitone
Lucy Railton - cello
Rob Spriggs - violin
Fred Thomas - piano

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Landscape folk fond of field recordings, strange technologies.and megaliths.
We released our first EP in 2003, led by producer Stephen Cracknell and featuring a rolling cast of collaborators from many musical fields.

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