Observations and advices oeconomical
North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677.

LVI.

Nothing (as I conceive) can be fitter to close up the Advi∣ces to a Housholder for that which is to be done within his House, then to put him in mind of filling his petty Magazines in due season with those provi∣sions of store which are neces∣sary. These branch them∣selves Page  84 into so many particulars, as here can be no room to spe∣cifie them, but so it is, as the very life of domestical frugali∣ty consisteth therein, and as to these, if occasion be not taken by the foretop, it will be little lesse then impossible to make these provisions at all, especi∣ally in a Countrey Family. And wheresoever the Family is, the Supply must otherwise be wrought out with infinite losse. Our Master therefore must not slumber in such matters, least his experience be too dearly bought.