days, and promised to conduct them to the chieftain. They intended to convert him and so affirmed they had a message of considerable importance to deliver to him.

The pagan Saxons, witnessing these activities of the Christian priests and missionaries, began to suspect that the Hewalds planned to convert their over-lord, destroy their temples and supplant their religion. Inflamed with jealousy and anger, they resolved that the Hewalds should die. An uprising followed and both priests were quickly seized.