A complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and Oxford paying for 470 years
The 1355 St Scholastica Day riot began at the Swindlestock Tavern and left the town paying a penny per dead scholar every year.
On February 10, 1355, two Oxford students named Walter de Spryngeheuse and Roger de Chesterfield complained about the wine at the Swindlestock Tavern. The vintner, John de Croydon, dismisse…
