OXFORD CUSTOM
THE BEST BEER—FREE. OXFORD, May 26. At Mid-day to-day a small postern gate between Lincoln College and Brasenose College, which remains barred and locked for the rest of the year, was opened, and Brasenose men swarmed into their neighbours’ buttery for free beer—their right on Ascension Day.
The custom dates from a date in the Middle Ages, when a Lincoln student murdered a Brasenose man. As a penance, Lincoln, which sheltered the murderer, was ordered to distribute free beer to its neighbours on the anniversary of the crime. The Lincoln steward, in order to reduce the quantity drunk, doctored the beer, with ground ivy, making it much more potent. The beer to-day is reputed to be the best in the country.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1933, Page 2
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