Oxfordshire.
It is a custom at Merton College, says Pointer, in his Oxoniensis Academia (1749, p. 24), on the last night in the year (called Scrutiny Night), for the college servants, all in a body, to make their appearance in the hall before the warden and fellows (after supper), and there to deliver up the keys, so that if they have committed any great crime in the year their keys are taken away, and consequently their places, otherwise they are of course delivered to them again.
At the opening of the scrutiny the senior Bursar makes this short speech:
In hoc scrutinio hæc tria sunt proponenda,
Mores servientium—numerus Portionistarum,
Electio Hortulanorum.