CHAP. XVI The Persecutions and affronts he suffered.
YEt, to take our rise a little higher, these reli∣gious usages, which should rather have gain∣ed him respect and love with all, did to some for∣lorn miscreants administer matter of spite and ca∣lumny. For, when at first he held discourses of Spirituall things in his chamber, every day after dinner; and applyed himself to hear Confessions, many that maligned him began privately to whisper and in time openly decry him, prating what came next. The Ringleader of them was Vincentius Tec∣cosius of Fabrianum, a Physitian, one of the four De∣puty-Governours of the place, to whom gathered two Apostates, that lived there disguised under a reli∣gious habit; these at Teccosius's instigation used all means to drive Philip thence. For being Sacrists by place, as soon as they saw him coming to the Vestry, they would shut the door against him, deny him the Vestments, or bring him such as were torn, sometimes take the Chalice or Missall out of his