He was represented as selling all the places in the revenue department for three years' purchase.

The opprobrious nickname of Filcher was fastened on him.

His luxury, it was said, was not less inordinate than his avarice.

There was indeed an attempt made at this time to raise against the leading Whig politicians and their allies, the great moneyed men of the City, a cry much resembling the cry which, seventy or eighty years later, was raised against the English Nabobs.

Great wealth, suddenly acquired, is not often enjoyed with moderation, dignity and good taste.
It is therefore not impossible that there may have been some small foundation for the extravagant stories with which malecontent pamphleteers amused the leisure of malecontent squires.