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Hunwald, in Gsetlingum, to whom he had given not only 
that place but other lands besides, and from whom, on 
account of these past favours he now claimed hospitality ; 
but the Earl forgot the duty of gratitude to his benefactor, 
and abused the confidence reposed in him. He repaired 
to Oswiu, and made him acquainted with the retreat of 
Oswini, and Oswiu immediately sent Ethilwini, his steward, 
with a band of soldiers to the place, with orders to put him 
to death. Thus perished, on the 20th of August, A.D. 651, 
the holy king Oswini, in the ninth year of his reign. 
Eanflaed, the wife of Oswiu, a relative of Oswini, obtained 
from her husband a grant of land in the neighbourhood, 
and gave it to Trumheri, their kinsman, that he might 
found thereon a monastery, in which prayers might be 
continually offered for the souls of Oswiu and Oswini. 
He had been educated amongst the Scots, became the first 
abbot of this monastery, and was afterwards the third bishop 
of the Mercians. The body of St. Oswini rested here for 
a time, and was afterwards translated to Tynemouth, and 
interred in the cemetery there. 
The scene of this murder has generally been supposed to 
be Gilling, near Richmond, and indeed is identified with it in 
Capgrave's life of St. Oswini, but there is nothing in earlier 
writers to warrant this, and I suppose that the writer of this life 
was misled by the fact of the proximity of Gilling to Catterick. 
There is, however, no need to fancy such a proximity to the 
place where Oswini disbanded his forces and fled; nay, it seems 
more probable, that, reserving himself, as Venerable Baeda 
says, for better times, he would place as great a distance as 
possible between himself and the army of Oswiu. Moreover, 
I feel quite convinced that the meeting of the rival kings did 
not take place near Catterick, for the name is given quite dis- 
tinctly Wilfarsesdun, and there is no such place at the 
required distance from Catterick, nor I believe in Yorkshire 
