From your link: >The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford [ when two students became angry at being served poor quality dri

From your link: >The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford [ when two students became angry at being served poor quality drink ] I wonder if this is the etymological origin of the word 'swindle?' The online etymological dictionary indicates that the term was of German origin, brought to England by German Jews, meaning a giddy or untrustworthy person, based on an older word meaning to languish or decline but that seems incognate with its current meaning.