A complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and Oxford paying for 470 years
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#77JZN)
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, dismissed the complaint. One of the students threw his drink in de Croydon's face, and by one account beat him with the quart pot. - Read the rest
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