Hitherto I have met with very little mention of any Officers of the _Court_ or _Household_. In this Reign, however, we hear of William de Tankerville, whom Lord Lyttelton calls, "Henry's _Great Chamberlain_." The Annotator on M. Rapin calls him only _Chamberlain_; and Matthew Paris, _Camerarius_; but this unquestionably means _Treasurer_, or _High Treasurer_, and not the great Officer we now understand by the _Chamberlain_, or the _Great Chamberlain_. The Latin term for these is _Cambellanus_, which Du Cange says, is--"diversus à _Camerario_, penes quem erat cura _Cameræ_ seu Thesauri Regii--_Cambellano_ autem fuit cura _Cubiculi_[105]. We have the term _Chamberlain_, in the sense of _Camerarius_, still preserved in the City of London, where the Treasurer is called the _Chamberlain_, and the office the _Chamber_; and indeed this Officer, of every Corporation, is, for the most part, called the _Chamberlain_. In the account given by the Saxon Chronicle[106] of the persons who were so unfortunately drowned with Prince William, King Henry's son, in returning from Normandy, in the year 1120, it is said there perished "quamplurimi de Regis familiâ, _Dispensatores_[107], _Cubicularii_[108], _Pincernæ_[109], aliique Ministri;" indeed all who were on board perished, except one man. These, it is supposed, were all menial and inferior Officers of the King's Household; those of a higher rank, and who appertained to the King's person, probably being on board the same ship with himself. [105] Du Cange, Gloss. in voce _Cambellanus_. [106] P. 222. [107] The _Dispensatores_ should seem to be something like our Gentlemen of the Buttery, Pantry, &c.; or such as delivered out provisions of various sorts in their several provinces. [108] The _Cubicularii_ I have already supposed to mean the inferior Officers of the Bed-chamber. [109] The _Pincernæ_, Butlers,--"_Pincerna_, qui Vinum Convivis miscet;" Du Cange in voce: and _Pincernare_, he says, is "Vinum prægustare priusquam Principi propinetur;" Idem in voce. So that it seems to be what we call _A Yeoman of the Mouth_. STEPHEN.