Once a year the Eton schoolmaster and all his scholars went to a barrow by the road near Slough, about a mile from the college, and offered salt to travellers. The college was said to hold some of its lands by this custom. Aubrey thought, without being sure, that it fell on the first day of Hilary term.
Salt for travellers at Eton
Printed under 23 January · Near Slough, Buckinghamshire
No longer kept
They doe hold some lands by a Custome of offering to the travellers Salt; 'tis on (I thinke) the first day of Hilary-terme.
From Aubrey's Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, p. 132. Read the original
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