Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1

by Dawson Turner

"Vicisti, Galtere, tui sunt signa triumphi

Deppa, Locoveris, Alacris-mons, Butila, molta,

Deppa maris portus, Alacris-mons locus amœnus,

Villa Locoveris, rus Butila, molta per urbem.

Hactenus hæc Regis Richardi jura fuere;

Hæc rex sancivit, hæc papa, tibique tuere[^[11]]."

Nor was this the only memorial of the fact; for the advantages of the exchange were so generally recognized, that the name of Walter became proverbial; and to this day it is said in Normandy of a man who over-reaches another, "c'est un fin Gautier." It might be inferred from the terms of the bargain in which Dieppe merely appears as one of the items of the account, that it was then a place of little consequence; yet, one of the old chroniclers speaks of it at the time it was taken by the French under Philip Augustus, as

"portus famâ celeberrimus atque

Villa potens opibus."