go to Church, and presently taking off his cloak, bad it should be carried her. If he at any time saw Boys or Girles in torne or ragged apparrel, he forthwith took order for decently clothing them.
Again if he knew of any one unjustly imprison∣ed, he never left mediating for him, till he were released. He so stoutly defended a Roman Noble∣man unto the Pope, being wrongfully accused of Murder, that he got him cleared of the Calumny. A Priest falsly impeached of heinous crimes, where∣of he knew him innocent; was through his means also delivered from the malice of his enemies. In like manner he in commiseration to certain Va∣grants or Gypsies, called by the Italians Cingari, freed them, when they were condemned to the Gallies. He also protected a Roman Lord from the wickedness of his Subjects that came to Rome to im∣plead him before Sixtus V. and accommodated the differences betwixt them.
He was exceeding charitable to poor Priests, and especially if they were forreigners. In the year 1551, there being a great dearth at Rome, Philip had six loaves brought him, which he immediately carried to a Priest that was a stranger, living himself on a few Olives: and being demanded why he kept ne∣ver a loaf for himself, replyed, Because I am better known here than he, and can shift better then a for∣reigner.
He found out divers wayes of helping Mechanicks and Artizans, such as earned their living by manu∣all trades, and could neither put of their work nor get employment. There were two Brothers, Frenchmen, very expert Watch-makers, but grown old and having a great charge of Daughters that were marriagable, for whom they could not pro∣vide