96 BOGEB OF WENDOVER. [A.D. 661 at first somewhat 'repulsed the English. At length becoming fatigued, the courage of the Britons melted like snow ; they were routed from Penn as far as Pendred, and the descendants of Brute never recovered from the blow inflicted on them on that day. Eugenius pupe» In the year of grace 659, Eugenius sat in the Eoman chair two years, nine months, and twenty-two days ; after which the see remained void for two months. Miracle of St. Dionysius. In the year of grace 660, king Clovis uncovered the body of the blessed Dionysius, and covetously and irreligiously broke off the bone of his arm, which he took away, and presently after he fell into a lasting madness. In the year of grace 661, Kinewalc, king of the West-Saxons, rebelled against Wulfhere, king of the Mercians ; but the latter, partaking of his father's valour and good fortune, prevailed, and routed the king of the West-Saxons, and ravaged his territory, till at last he made himself master rt the Isle of Wight. A t this time also, Athelwald, king of the South-Saxons, being subdued by the aforesaid Wulfhere in the fourth year of his reign, embraced the faith of Christ, and was received by the same king from the font. After which he sent Eopa, the presbyter, to the Isle of Wight, to preach to that people and convert them to the true faith. There was at that time in the province of the Northumbrians a certain clergyman, named Wilfrid, a great friend of Alfrid, the son of Oswi, whom he had instructed in the doctrines of Christianity. On his return from Rome, he had spent a considerable time with Dalfin, archbishop of Lyons, and had received from him the ecclesiastical tonsure. Alfrid therefore gave him a monastery of forty families at Ripon, which he had given a little before to the bishops who kept Easter according to the custom of the Scots ; but forasmuch as they afterwards, being left to their option, chose rather to leave the place than change their custom, he gave it to him whose life and doctrine were more worthy. There came at that time into the province of the Northumbrians, Agelbert, bishop of the West-Saxons, whom we have men