By Queen Ermenild had King Wulfere These twey sons that ye see here. Wulfade rideth as he was wont, Into the forest the hart to hunt; Fore all his men Wulfade is gone, And sought, himself, the hart alone. The hart brought Wulfade to a well, That was beside Seynt Chaddy's cell. Wulfade asked of Seynt Chad, Where is the hart that me hath led? The hart that hither thee hath brought, Is sent by Christ, that thee hath bought. Wulfade prayed Chad, that ghostly Leech, The faith of Christ him for to teach. Seynt Chad teacheth Wulfade the feyth, And words of baptism over him seyth. Seynt Chad devoutly to mass him dight, And hoseled Wulfade Christy's knight. Wulfade wished Seynt Chad that day, For his brother Rufine to pray. The legend goes on to say that Rufine was baptized also by the saint. The king's steward, Werbode (who had been rebuked by the two princes for seeking the hand of their sister, Werburga), told Wulfere of their becoming Christians, and that they were then praying in S. Chad's oratory. The king took horse thither at once, and slew them both with his own hand. Stung with remorse, he fell ill, and was counselled by his queen to ask Chad to shrive him. As a penance the saint told him to build several abbeys, and amongst the number he completed Peterborough Minster, which his father had begun. This legend is told with very full and touching details in a Latin version printed in the Monasticon.[3] [3] Many of these details of S. Chad's life are taken from Mr. Warner's excellent life of S. Chad. The Latin version is this. King Wulfere, son of Penda the Strenuous, had been baptized many years before by B. Finan, and promised at the font, and again when he wedded Ermenilda, of the royal house of Kent, to destroy all the idols in his realm. He neglected to do so, and let his three sons, Wulfade, Rufine, and Kenred remain unbaptized. His beauteous daughter, Werburga, had been dedicated to Christ as a virgin by the Queen; yet, when Werbode, his chief councillor, and the chief supporter of idolatry in the realm, sought her hand in marriage, the king consented. The queen, Ermenilda, however, sharply rebuked him for his presumption. The brothers threatened him with their sore vengeance if he again preferred his low-born suit to their sister. Their disdainful words cost them dear.