Droitwich kept holiday each year and dressed its salt well with green boughs and flowers, on the ninth day after Whit Sunday according to Aubrey’s informant. When the dressing was neglected in the Civil War the spring ran dry, to the great loss of the town. Ever after, Aubrey wrote, the minister and even the soldiers took care to dress it, willing or not.
The Droitwich spring that ran dry
58 days after Easter · Droitwich, Worcestershire
No longer kept
In the Civil-warres they neglected the anniversary Dressing of the Salt-well at Droytwich: and afterwards the Spring became dry: to the great losse of the Towne
From Aubrey's Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, p. 71. Read the original
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