text:  As that remote country ill-supplied at the period with police (and even those of the most "ancient and quiet" description ) and wholly inaccessible to bailiffs and all other functionaries attendant on county sheriffs was deemed peculiarly favourable as quarters for that class of magnanimous men whose expenditure happens to exceed their incomes to the detriment of their tailors and their own personal inconvenience it was soon whispered and as quickly believed that the resident at Cahill's was one of that generous brotherhood or in other words was "a gentleman on his keeping