. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . fices, and made a reputation asa good man of business. After a short diplomatic mission he becameChancellor of the Exchequer in 1621. This office he retained underKing Charles, and got therewith much unpopularity. He becamea peer and Lord Treasurer in 1628. As early as 1629 he was treatedto a scolding by Eliot in Parliament, partly on account of his Spanishand Catholic proclivities, partly because he was known as the Kingsablest agent in finance. His greed was continually denounced, andhe was even accused of peculation. If any one fo
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . fices, and made a reputation asa good man of business. After a short diplomatic mission he becameChancellor of the Exchequer in 1621. This office he retained underKing Charles, and got therewith much unpopularity. He becamea peer and Lord Treasurer in 1628. As early as 1629 he was treatedto a scolding by Eliot in Parliament, partly on account of his Spanishand Catholic proclivities, partly because he was known as the Kingsablest agent in finance. His greed was continually denounced, andhe was even accused of peculation. If any one formulated forCharles the policy of abstaining from all assertions of English powereither on sea or land, it was Richard Weston, and he was rewardedwith the Earldom of Portland in 1633. He died in the Catholicfaith, of which he had long been a secret adherent, two years later,a mean creature whom history would do well to forget, but one whoby his economy of public moneys really did something to enableCharles I to get through the first ten years of his o J n. J w c > c ?; DC o u U ^ SJ a c Q *j X J^ rt < i: £o
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