Fourth Remedy.
Against keeping a single House-fire and Candle-light for one person, which might without any annoyance, serve three or four (for that must be avoided) is before mentioned.
If an Overseer of a Family should allot out, and deliver a Months provision at once to his Servants, 'tis strange if there be not much wast, and want too, in his House before the Month is over; and being laught at for his folly, would by such way of Managery, leave a short Inventory to his Exe∣cutor: Every person concern'd in Trusts, either in Offices for the publick or for particular persons, is by the obliga∣tion of Justice, Reason, and common Honesty, obliged to use at least as much care, prudence, and integrity in matters wherein he is entrusted, as in his own proper concerns: And it is folly in an Overseer of a Family, not to make daily provi∣sion, and is it not much more so in an Overseer of a Parish, who hath neither so charitable opinion, nor so easy an over∣sight, of those whom he is to oversee, as an Overseer of one Family hath?
Besides, many Men receive Relieve in respect of their Wives and Children, and having got the Money, soon spend it; leaving such their Families to their choice, either to beg for their own Relief, or starve; who dare not to complain, and would be as well without Parish pay, as such having and never the near: whereas were their Parish Allowance daily in such manner as is herein proposed, they would then have their daily Bread, and every day an Omer.