Lazarus Cooke wrote:
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> In article >, Kate Dicey
> > wrote:
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> > Here both student and apprentice riots on these issues in the middle
> > ages are fairly well documented.
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> Hi Kate. Are you sure? I've always heard it but I'm filled with a
> horrible fear that it might be one of those stories....
>
> L
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> Remover the rock from the email address

Both my long departed dad and Big Sis read history at university. First
time I heard about this was when they were discussing it. I can't
remember the references after 20+ years, but you need to dig into court
rolls and the like and see who was brought before the courts for riotous
behaviour and assault. Oxford and Cambridge both suffered, and some of
the older colleges have accounts in their documents, I think.

My grandmother lived next door to one of the girls who gutted the
herring catch in the little coastal fishing villages of Fife in the
early 20th C, and she used to tell tales of having fish fights, when
there were so many herring everyone got sick of them and used them as
ammunition in local disputes! YEKK! Tired ole herring STINKS!

I wish I had time to look into this more fully, but I'm just taking a
break from bridesmaid outfits and a sewing machine on the fritz!
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