To give a sense of the range of causes of death investigated by the coroner, the following is a synopsis of the other crimes reported in coroners' rolls (Oxford City Documents, 150-74), although probably representing only items selected by the transcribers. Two things may be noted. First, that students appear to have been involved in most of these incidents; the number of females – even at-risk prostitutes – involved as perpetrators or victims, as well as violence between members of the same family (which accounts for a high proportion of homicides in modern society), are correspondingly small. Although this selection of extracts likely reflects a bias of Twyne or Rogers, the eyre of 1285 paints a similar picture, and it is evident that the behaviour of some of the university students was a serious aggravation to the borough authorities. The second thing is that many of the homicides occurred after curfew, yet resulted from the use of the sorts of weapons carried about as a matter of course; they mostly seem hot-blooded rather than premeditated (or incidental escalations of burglaries), despite the occasional indication of ongoing feuds or night-wanderers looking for trouble. We can see from these inquests that evidence must have been sought by the coroners, as quickly as possible after examination of the scene of the crime, from bystanders or others, and that it was left to the jury to weigh the evidence and declare, under oath, what they considered to be the facts.

• 4 February 1297, John Metescharp died after having on 2 February been shot by an arrow when he responded to a hue and cry raised against three clerks (probably students) who were going through the streets around curfew, armed with swords and bows, and assaulting any pedestrians they encountered. The culprits escaped.

• 20 January 1298, Thomas Yve found Robert de la Marche tawyer dead outside a house near the north gate and immediately raised hue. Around twilight the previous evening he had ventured outside the north gate, where he encounted four Irish clerks (probably students). For reasons not explained, one stabbed Robert with a knife under his left arm; the attacker fled, but the others of the group were later arrested.

• 17 June 1298, William de Heyworth died of a hatchet wound to the skull, a wound received on 27 May from an assault by Reginald le Messer, a poor resident of the Hospital of St. John; Reginald had meanwhile fled.

• 23 April 1300, Roger the son of Emma de Hereford having been found dead the previous day, the inquest found that Emma had, along with many other poor people, been present at a distribution of food at the house of the Archdeacon of Buckinghamshire on the 21st. The throng of the crowd knocked her down and she was trampled underfoot. She miscarried a stillborn son the following day. No blame was assigned.

• 2 August 1300, William de Bangor, an Irish clerk was found dead near a dam of the Abbey of Osney by Richard de Hayle, who raised hue. William had no marks on him and the jury concluded he had drowned while trying to bathe in the river Thames. Death by misadventure.

• 17 August 1300, Gervase Maddak, a Welsh youth, having been found dead in St. Edward's Hall, the jury found that he had finally succumbed to a wound received back in February, when he had been struck on the head by a cudgel wielded by Robert le Porter of Winchenden while visiting an inn. The culprit had fled – where no-one knew – leaving behind his cudgel.

• 16 December 1300, John de Rypon was found dead at curfew time by Thomas Yvo, who raised hue. An inquest the following day found that John had become involved in a war of words with Richard de Malteby, who with his cudgel struck John on the head, killing him. Richard had escaped.

• 22 December 1300, an inquest on the body of Henry de Bokingeham, a clerk found dead the same day with one wound in his skull, attributed to a hatchet, and a second below his left eye, attributed to a knife, concluded that Henry had been set upon by thieves unknown while on his way into town.

• 5 January 1301, Robert de Honniton clerk died after lingering since 31 December when he had climbed up the bell-tower of St. Michael's church with some notion of helping ring the bells, but fell out of an opening and, landing on his right side, received so much damage that by the time he died his right side was badly swollen and blackened.

• 26 June 1301, the bodies of two men – Simon le Fevre and Alan son of William le Strange, were found in a field in the suburbs of Oxford, by Alice de Coventre, who raised hue. Both had deep head wounds. The jury's findings were that the pair had been leaving Oxford at twilight, to return to Wolgaricote (a village where at least one of them lived), and were crossing the field when attacked by thieves; who those thieves were or what had become of them, the jury had no idea.

• 7 December 1301, Hugh Russel, a Welsh clerk, succumbed in his lodgings to a lung-piercing wound he had received four days previously, as a result of an argument in which he had become embroiled with Master Elias de Monte Gomorry. After wounding Hugh with a knife, Elias had fled.

• 7 December 1301, the body of John de Neushom, a clerk and a schoolmaster, was pulled from the river Cherwell, his wife Isabella having been the first finder. The inquest found that after lunch on a previous day he had gone off in search of switches to use when punishing his pupils. Having climbed up a willow tree near a millpond, to cut off suitable branches, he fell in the water and drowned.

• 9 December 1301, John de Hampslape, a clerk from Northamptonshire, was found dead in Cat Street with a knife wound to the heart, Willliam le Schovelere the finder having raised hue. The jury determined that on the previous day around the hour of curfew John had come out of the room where he lodged, on the north side of "the great school", in order to urinate, when he heard an argument underway between two fellow clerks who lodged in a room on the south side of the school. Upon investigating, John saw one of the clerks, Nicholas de la Marche, draw a knife with the intent of attacking the other clerk, Thomas de Horncastel. John thrust himself between the two to try to prevent violence, only to receive the blow intended for Thomas. Because this happened at night, no hue was raised at that time, and Nicholas was able to effect an escape.

• 12 August 1302, John the son of John Godfrey of Benseye was found dead in the river Thames, the first finder having raised hue. The jury found that on the previous day he and others had spent the day mowing a meadow in sunny weather and, because it was a hot day, had drunk quite a bit and become inebriated. In that state he had decided to cross the Thames in a ramshackle boat, in order to return to his lodgings on the other bank. As he tried to step into the boat, he fell overboard and drowned.

• 14 June 1303, John de Osgodeby clerk was found dead in the street with multiple wounds to his head, probably from a sword. The jury's verdict was that on the previous day, around curfew time, John crossed paths with Nicholas de Vylers an Irish clerk, Thomas de Weldon clerk, and Thomas' servant John le Northern. They set upon the victim with their swords and, killing him, fled.

• 29 May 1307, the body of John the son of Sir Miles Stapleton was found in his lodgings; the finder raising hue, the coroner came quickly to view the body and discovered two wounds, a deep wound 3 inches wide in the back next to the spine and a second on the right shoulder. An inquest was immediately summoned and the jurors' conclusion from the investigation was that on the previous day, around the hour of vespers, John (a clerk) was walking along the street adjacent to the city wall on the east side of Oxford when he encountered Robert de Knotton scribe, John Saxendale, Nicholas de Kirkham, and John de Eboraco, all three clerks, friar William de Fimmore, and Richard le Citoler. The group set upon John and he received the knife-wound on his shoulder from Knotton and the sword-wound in the back from Saxendale. John used his remaining strength to break free of them and ran into the high street near the East Gate, where he collapsed. Later some friends of his, coming back into town from the suburban fields where they had been engaged in some sport, found John still alive and carried him back to his lodgings, where he died soon after. Following this verdict, Knotton and Saxendale were arrested and imprisoned, but their accomplices – whom the jurors considered willing accessories to the homicide – were not to be found.

• 4 May 1314, Henry de Insula clerk was found dead in Grope Lane, the finder raising hue. The inquest held the same day found that, around midday on that date, two factions of clerks [i.e. students] had a "rumble" in St. John's Street and Grope Lane – one faction representing those from the northern part of town, and the other those from southern and western parts. Both groups were armed with swords, bucklers, bows and arrows and other weapons and were clearly looking for a fight. During the fight Robert de Bridlyngton and four other students positioned themselves in the upper room of a hall facing onto St. John's Street, from where they could shoot arrows through the window into Grope Lane. One of Bridlyington's arrows struck Henry in the back and killed him. The jurors blamed the whole group for inciting Bridlyngton. Although not specified, it appears that the group had escaped arrest.

• 4 May 1314, David de Kirkby was another victim of the above clash, his body also being found in Grope Lane. He had been attacked by several adversaries, receiving a blow to the head from a falchion (a short sword whose blade curves towards its point) wielded by John de Benton, a leg wound from the sword of William de la Hyde, and a dagger wound under his left arm from William de Astele; it was believed that the last of those wounds had proved the fatal one. Again the attackers seem to have evaded the hands of the law.

• 8 May 1314, Matthew de Kentheleyke of Wales died in Brendhall (a building associated with one of the colleges), and the coroners held an inquest the same day. It reached the conclusion that, late in the day on 2 May, Matthew had encountered John de Fulney in the street near Brendhall and, an argument ensuing, John had drawn his knife and stabbed Matthew, killing him.

• 20 July 1319, Lucas de Morton was found dead in his house. The inquest jurors determined that on the evening before Lucas had left his house to use the privy in Cat Street when there arrived a group of clerks from the northern part of town, including Elyas Hubberthorp, and clerks from the southern part, with a view to a gang fight. Elyas, believing Lucas to be a member of the opposing gang, struck him on the head with a sword. He was evidently carried back to his own house and given the last rites there.

• 20 October 1321, William the son of John de Harwendon took sanctuary in the church of St. Mary's for fear of being arrested. He confessed to the coroners of horsetheft and then took oath before them that he would leave England; they assigned him Southampton as the port of departure. William's possessions, forfeited, were given to the Prior of St. Frideswide's, as he had jurisdiction during the time of the fair.

• 26 December 1321, John Potum's corpse was found in one of the Oxford halls, the finder raising hue, and an inquest being held soon after the arrival of the coroners. It was discovered that Master John de Seton had a grudge against Potum, because of some previous argument they had, and on the previous night had stabbed Potum with a knife.

• 15 February 1322, John de Bellocampo was found dead in one of the Merton college halls, the finder raising hue. The inquest blamed a fellow student, William de Stodhelm, who the previous night, after an argument between them, pulled a knife and stabbed John to the heart, then disappeared.

• 5 April 1322, William de Aslebury was found dead in one of the university halls. The inquest jury found that, eight days earlier, in the morning, William while still in bed took his knife and stabbed himself in the stomach. No reason for the suicide was given.

• 30 June 1325, an inquest was held on the body of Gilbert de Crofton clerk. It found that on 25 June at the hour of vespers and great fight took place between students of the northern part of town and those of the western part, just inside the North Gate of the town. In that conflict, Stephen de Caperugge stabbed Gilbert in the back with a knife. The seriously wounded Gilbert staggered off to Smithgate, where Roger le Norden finished him off with an arrow to the head. The killers apparently escaped.