76 BOGER OF WEN-DOVER. [A.D. C27. was bent on bringing the people to whom he came to receive the truth. In the year of grace 626, Quichelm, who reigned jointly with his father Kinegils over the West-Saxons, sent an assassin named Eumer, to slay king Eadwin. This man, pretending an embassy from his lord, went to the king, near the river Derwent, with a two-edged weapon dipped in poison, to the end that if the weapon failed to despatch him, he might at least die of the poison. On seeing which, Lilla, a servant of the king, rushing between them, was run through by the stroke, and the king himself was slightly wounded by the same. The assassin, immediately after, slew a certain knight, but was at length himself killed and cut in pieces by the swords of the rest. The king was exceedingly disturbed by this event, but was somewhat comforted on his queen giving birth to a daughter the following night, for which he returned thanks to his gods ; whereupon Paulinus rebuked him, assuring him that through his prayers the queen had brought forth without pain. On hearing this, the king was delighted, and promised that he would himself believe in the God of Paulinus, if he would give him the victory over Quichelm ; and, as a pledge of his fulfilling his promise, he gave orders that his daughter should be baptized. She was accordingly baptized, with thirty more of his household, and was named Eanfled. After which, collecting an army, the king marched against Quichclm, and slew, or compelled to submission, all those that he had been informed had conspired against his life. Moreover, he slew r-Quichelm at a place which is to this day called, in the English tongue, " Quichelmeshlaune," which was the name he gave it in token of his victory.* And so he returned to his own country in triumph. Of a revelation made to archbishop Paulinus, which induced king Eadwin to embrace the faith of Christ. In the year of grace 627, a revelation was made to archbishop Paulinus by divine inspiration, which induced king Eadwin to believe. The manner of it was as follows. A t the time of his persecution by Ethelfrid, his predecessor, and * No other historian agrees with Wendover in this account of Quichelm's death.