Cawdery, or Coudray, Cawdray. A branch of the Beaumonts, Viscounts of Maine. (Vide Beaumont.)
Cawley, for Colley.
Cawse, Calz, or Caux, from Caux, near Abbeville. Hence the English surname, Cox or Coxe.
Cayley, from Cailly, near Rouen.
Cecil, Cicelle, or Seyssel, from Kessel, or Cassel, east of Bruges, Flanders. Its arms (escutcheon charged with the lion rampant of Flanders) are still borne in Flanders by a family of the same name. Walter de Alterens, descended from Robert Fitz-Hamon, living 1165, is derived the noble house of Cecil. The great English statesman, Lord Burleigh (William Cecil) was of this family.
Ceeley, or Seily, from Silly, Normandy.
Chabot, or Cabot. Robert Kabot, 1198. Roger Cabot, of England, 1272.
Chace, Chase, or Chausey. Armorially identified, also, with Chancy or De Canci. The name appears in all parts of England as Chancey, Chancy, etc.
Chad, for Cadd.
Chaff, from Chause. Vide Cafe.