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 1921 • A BUTLER'S SERJEANTY 47 I propose in this note to deal, appears to have escaped notice, 1 although it may claim special attention as having been connected not only with Normandy, but with England. Possibly, it has been overlooked owing to the curious confusion as to the identity of the place with which the service was connected and of the family which derived its surname from the place in question. Madox, who has given us, in the foot-notes to his History of the Exchequer (ed. 1711), so much valuable information from the public records, has references to the service in England on three different pages of that work ; but as the surname there occurs in three different forms (' Chevil ', ' Chivill ', ' Ke villi '), it has to be sought for, in the index, under three separate headings. In the Testa de Nevill (1807) the surname occurs in three entries on pp. 267 b, 269 b, 270 b, 2 but only the second of these is indexed (p. 563 b). Stapleton, as we should expect, was familiar with Quevilly and rightly identified ' Ke villi ', ' Ki villi ', ' Chivileium ', as Quevilly, ' a royal residence '. 3 But I cannot find any reference under that name to the family named therefrom. Unfortunately, this writer identified also — no doubt correctly — in a foot-note of portentous length (n. xliv-1), as Chevaillec, a hamlet on the skirts of the ' bois de Gonneville ' (sur Honfleur ), some land held by Nicholas Malesmains (n. xlvii). This identification was the source of Eyton's amazing error ; finding certain royal charters issued from ' Chivilli ', 4 he assigned them, not to Quevilly (the mansio regia of Robert de Torigni), but to this obscure hamlet. It was only by chance that I discovered Stapleton 's important citation from the register of Philip Augustus : 5 Henricus de la Hosse tenet terram suam de la Hosse et de Kevilli et de Rothomago etc. .. . pro qua debet servicium Boutelerie, unde debet habere suas liberationes quando servit. Stapleton describes this as the duty of ' Henry de la Heuze [sic] to perform the office of Butler to the king in the Duchy of Nor- mandy ' (n. cxxviii). In the first volume, however, he informs us that the surname was derived ' from Le Hozu, a fief in the parish of Grand Quevilly, near Rouen ' (i. lxxxi). It was at Rouen that was centred the great traffic in wine, and there are passages 1 The writer desires to explain that, being confined to bed by illness, he has only been able to consult a limited number of books, so that this paper cannot claim to be in any way exhaustive. 2 The forms are ' Kyvilby ' (p. 267 b) and ' Kiveli ' (pp. 269 b, 270 b). 3 Mag. Rot. Scacc. (1840-4), i. ccxix, n. cccxix. Quevilly (Grand et Petit) lay opposite Rouen on the left bank of the river, where it forms a great loop round the forest of Rouvray. 5 Cf. Pipe Roll 1 Ric. I (1189), p. 217 ' Henrico de la Hose qui misit vina per maneria Regis ij marcas ad expensas suas.'
 * Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II (1878), pp. 158, 187.