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Wheatley saw riots on the use of the Town Meadow in 1771 and 1870. In both cases prominent long-standing poor working class Wheatley families saw reason to make their feelings known and riots erupted over the use of the common land. The Munt families partook in both riotious assemblies, on the second occasion on 1870, the Munt participants were direct descendents of the Munts of almost 100 years earlier.
The 1870 riots were well documented in the newspapers of the day with detailed courtproceedings appearing in the local paper The Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette. The families, mainly poor labourers involved in the 1870 riots were, James Munt, John Tombs, Geo. Clark, Thomas Maloney, and John Munt, Joseph Sheppard, Joseph Tombs, Charles Messenger, Edward Tombs.
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