Clemons's supporters have over the years given a different rendition of events. In the racially heated atmosphere of St Louis in the early 1990s, they say, Clemons was made the fall guy. Of the four men who were charged with the murders, the three black men were all put on death row while the one white man is now free on parole.

Old Nabby's quite enough during the day-lah.

Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].

wool, the great staple commodity of England