de hearing with astonishment, entered into further
conference with St. Chad in his cell, and was by him baptized:
and returning with joy to his father's court, he secretly told
his brother Rufine of all that had passed, perswading him to be
baptized also; to which Rufine consenting, Wulfade brought him to
St. Chad, who likewise baptized this other brother."

[22] "This Christian pair of brothers did often resort to a
private oratory, where they performed their devotions; but at
length being discovered to their father by the steward Werbode,
who instigated, and enflamed the fire of paternal fury against
the sons, King Wolfere, the father, watching the time when his
sons were gone to pray, followed them, and entering the oratory,
slew both his sons with his own hand; and he, and Werbode
demolishing the place, left the bodies of his sons buried in the
rubbish." "Queen Ermenild, having searched for the bodies of her
sons, found them out, and giving them burial, [in one stone
coffin,] built in the same place where they were slain, a church
of stone."

[23] Dean Kipling, on the authority of tradition, is of opinion,
that St. Chad's well was in the quadrangle on the south side of
the minster, called the laurel court; but Gunton says, "St. Chad
had his cell in the county of Stafford, was the first bishop of
Lichfield, where he founded the cathedral church, and there lieth
buried." And this assertion would appear to be born out by the
fact that the "church of stone" referred to in the previous note,
is known to have been erected at _Stone_, in Staffordshire.

[24] The present painted windows are of modern date, excepting
one or two, which are composed of fragments of the windows of the
cloisters above described.

CHAPTER IV.

_Historical account of the building of the monastery, and description
of the architectural peculiarities of the present cathedral._

Having in the preceding chapters given a brief history of the former
monastery and present cathedral of Peterborough, up to the present
time, it now remains for us to say something of its architectural
peculiarities, and to notice some of the remarkable relicts of
antiquity which are still to be found within its walls. It has already
been stated, that in the year 655, the foundation for a monastic