He's saying that he thinks it's wrong to critisise Boyle too much.

Because the bigger sins at the time, in his eyes, were that Flem was still playing, well past the date he should have been put out to pasture, and that all the money had been used to buy Earnshaw.

I looked it up in my Pants English English Pants dictionary.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, May 30, 16:08:27