Friction with towspeople culminated in the 1354 "great massacre" in which hundreds of scholars and students were killed and the study halls pillaged.
其中最慘烈的一三五四年「大屠殺」中，數以百計的學者學生被亂箭射殺，學堂也被劫掠一空，直到校長突圍稟告英皇亨利三世，才算把市民鎮壓下去。