acquaintance of Helinand, throws considerable light on the real date of with the early years of the thirteenth century, the last date mentioned entered on the monastic career during which his "Chronicle" was his eloquence, who also composed those verses on Death in sermon, which assuredly shows no signs of mental decrepitude, in that year at a synod in Toulouse. (11) monk of Froid-mont, a man religious and distinguished for he experienced in obtaining even the loan of the volume shows that the "In those times, in the diocese of Beauvais, was Helinand Graal", which cannot therefore be of a later date than that at which he "Chronicle" was written determines approximately that of the "Book of the Graal". Helinand's "Chronicle". After recounting certain matters connected made this entry in his "Chronicle". At the same time, the difficulty few years, copies of a book so widely popular must have been In its present state, the "Chronicle" comes to an end with a notice of Beauvais, himself a younger contemporary and probably a personal Fortunately a passage in the "Speculum Historiale" of Vincent of closed in that year. As a matter of fact they had not then even begun. hastily assumed that Helinand's labours as a chronicler must have being 1209, Vincent proceeds:-- the capture of Constantinople by the French in 1204, and it has been comparatively common. The date, therefore, at which Helinand's work had at that time been only lately written, as in the course of a compiled. He was certainly living as late as 1229, and preached a At that time Helinand was still a courtly troubadour, and had not yet our vulgar tongue which are publicly read, so elegantly and