COLLEGE SALTING

In reply to the query of the Rev. Dr. Maitland (No. 17. p. 261.), I would remark, that *Salting* was the ceremony of initiating a freshman into the company of senior students or sophisters. This appears very clearly from a passage in the *Life of Anthony a Wood* (ed. 1771, pp. 45-50.). Anthony a Wood was matriculated in the University of Oxford, 26th May, 1647, and on the 18th of October "he was entered into the Buttery-Book of Merton College." At various periods, from All Saints till Candlemas, "there were Fires of Charcole made in the Common hall." "At all these Fires every Night, which bega…