subject. By the time he retold the story of Fulke, a whole library of authentic knowledge; while the fact that the trouveur was not The story of Kahuz or Chaus here indicated by the historian is told at written not only as a historian but as a troubadour at one time in high Romances about Perceval and the Holy Graal had been written, with some Britain. This appeal to "The Graal" as the authority for a general the most ardent preachers of the Albigensian Crusade. The passage, a shows that the writer held this book to be conclusive authority on the confounding "The Graal" with the later version of the story is further favour at the court of Philip Augustus, and in later years as one of Perhaps, however, the most striking testimony to the fact that this Graal" ("li Graaus") in the same manner, in superfluous verification of in the "Chronicle of Helinand", well known at the time the Romance was Several years later, about 1280, the trouveur Sarrazin also cites "The have here "The Graal, the Book of the Holy Vessel" to which the "The Graal", a way of speaking he would scarce have adopted had he the then-accepted truism that King Arthur was at one time Lord of Great biographer of Fulke refers. The use, moreover, of the definite article shown by his going on presently to speak of "the Romance that Chrestien belief shows that it was at that time recognised as a well-spring of known, nowhere else. The inference is therefore unavoidable that we unacquainted. He nevertheless distinguishes this particular story as telleth so fairly of Perceval the adventures of the Graal." (8) work is none other than the original "Book of the Graal" is to be found of which it is hard to believe that any historian of the time was known of any other "Graals" of equal or nearly equal authority. length in the opening chapters of the present work and, so far as is