COLLEGE SALTING

The money collected at the Eton Montem, now wisely abolished, was called "salt." In the *Consuetudinarium vetus Scholæ Etonensis*, taken from a MS. in the library of Corpus, Cambridge, and the Harleian MS. 7044, p. 167., and printed by Professor Creasy in his *Account of Eton College*, p. 73. (from whose work I take the extract), the following passage occurs, under the head "Mense Januario." I would remark, that Montem was changed from January to Whit-Tuesday, about a hundred years since:— "'Circiter festum Conversionis Divi Pauli ad horam nonam quodam die pro arbitrio moderatoris' (ex consuet…