[148] These authors were led to this opinion by the difficulty of reconciling the distances, as stated by Antoninus, between Julio-bona and the adjacent towns, with the actual distance of the same places from the modern Lillebonne.
[149] See Description de la Haute Normandie, I. p. 6, where it is suggested, that the word, L'Ilebonne, may be derived from the two Celtic words, Ile, signifying a current of water, and Bonne, which denotes the termination of any thing. The towns of Bonne, upon the Rhine, and of Libourne, are supposed to have taken their names from these words.
[150] Noel, Essais sur le Département de la Seine Inférieure, II. p. 126.
[151] Figured in the Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l'Ancienne France, par Nodier, Taylor, et De Cailleux.—In the section of this publication, comprising Normandy, the authors have devoted nine plates to the illustration of Lillebonne.
[152] In the Gallia Christiana, XI. p. 31, it is said on this subject, in speaking of Maurilius, archbishop of Rouen, that “adfuit Juliobonensibus Comitiis pro expeditione Anglicana, in 1066.”
[153] See Neustria Pia, p. 168.
[154] Duchesne, Scriptores Normanni, p. 488.
[155] Concilia Normannica, I. p. 67.