These attacks were, according to the planters, motivated 'merely for the lucre'.
Choirs operate much more easily in a financial sense - so, sorry to talk about filthy lucre, but that can sometimes be a consideration.
A man could do without landed status if he had money; indeed, he could wash the filthy lucre, thus purging (or at least effectively disguising) its egalitarian taint.
I am going on to a slightly more mundane theme and raising the subject of filthy lucre.
I have no doubt that they did not desire to associate filthy lucre with the establishment of this particular type of school.
There is a great temptation to leave the farm and grab the lucre.
So it seems to me that there is no problem there of anybody being coerced by love of filthy lucre.
It is "filthy lucre" that we want really.