MILLER (EDWARD), Mus. D. younger brother of the preceding, was apprenticed to his father's business, that of a paviour, in Norwich, but his dislike of the occupation became so great, that he absconded, and came to London. Soon afterwards he placed himself under the tuition of the celebrated Dr. Burney, with whom he continued in habits of intimacy and correspondence throughout his life. In 1756 he went to reside at Doncaster in Yorkshire, where he followed his profession with great reputation, and was organist of the church fifty-one years. He took his degree of doctor of music at Cambridge in 1786. Dr. Miller's company was much sought after, as he was an agreeable, well-bred man, and his conversation abounded in anecdote and apt quotation. His only failing was an occasional absence of mind, which led him into several ludicrous mistakes that will long be remembered in the neighbourhood of Doncaster.,

The latter years of his life were clouded by domestic calamities. He had a promising family of three daughters, who all died of consumptive complaints when they attained the age of maturity; of his two sons, one was lost by shipwreck on board the Halsewell Indiaman. His only surviving son is a popular preacher among the methodists, with whom his talents, zeal, piety, and charity, have made him deservedly beloved. Dr. Miller died at Doncaster, Sept. 12, 1807.

Dr. Miller's professional knowledge was very extensive, particularly in the theory of music; and his publications have been much valued. Among these are "The Institutes of Music," intended to teach the ground-work of the science; and "The Elements of Thorough Bass and Composition." But the most popular of his works was the "Psalms of David," set to music and arranged for every Sunday throughout the year. This, which was expressly intended for the use of churches and chapels, met with very great encouragement from all ranks of the clergy, and the subscription, before publication, amounted to near five thousand copies. It is now regularly used in a great proportion of places of public worship. Dr. Miller also was somewhat of a poet, and somewhat of an antiquary. His first attempt in the former character was entitled "The Tears of Yorkshire, on the death of the most noble the Marquis of Rockingham." He informs us himself, that so much was the marquis beloved, that 600 copies of this lite

rary trifle were sold in the course of a few hours, on the day of his interment in York minster. As an antiquary he published, two years before his death, "The History and Antiquities of Doncaster," 4to, in which he was assisted by many learned friends in that neighbourhood; but even with their help it bears many marks of advanced years and infirmities.1

MILLES (JEREMIAH), an English divine and antiquary, was the grandson of the rev. Isaac Milles, rector of High Clear in Hampshire, probably by his second son Jeremiah. His eldest son was Dr. THOMAS Milles, bishop of Waterford and Lismore, of whom it may be necessary to give some account, as Mr. Harris the editor and continuator of Ware has admitted a few mistakes, calling him Mills, and stating that he was the son of Joseph Mills. He was educated at Wadham college, Oxford, where he took the degree of B. A. in 1692, and that of M. A. in 1695. He was ordained by bishop Hough. In 1704 he took the degree of B. D. and in 1706 was appointed Greek professor of Oxford. In 1707 he attended the earl of Pembroke, lord lieutenant of Ireland, into that kingdom, and by him was promoted to the see of Waterford and Lismore. He died at Waterford May 13, 1740. He published a few controversial tracts, enumerated by Harris, but is best known by his valuable edition of the works of St. Cyril, published at Oxford in 1703, folio.

Bishop Milles left his fortune to his nephew, Jeremiah, who was born in 1714, and educated at Eton school, when he entered of Queen's college, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and took his degrees of M. A. in 1735, and B. and D. D. in 1747, on which occasion he went out grand compounder. He was collated by his uncle to a prebend in the cathedral of Waterford, and to a living near that city, which he held but a short time, choosing to reside in England. Here he married Edith, a daughter of archbishop Potter, by whose interest he obtained the united rectories of St. Edmund the King and St. Nicholas Acon in Lombard-street, with that of Merstham, Surrey, and the sinecure rectory of West Terring, in Sussex. To Merstham he was inducted in 1745. From the chantorship of Exeter he was promoted to the deanery of that cathedral, in 1762, on the advancement of Dr. Lyttelton to the see of Carlisle,

1 Gent. Mag. vol. LXXVII.—Private information.

whom he also succeeded as president of the society of antiquaries in 1765. He had been chosen a fellow of this society in 1741, and of the Royal Society in 1742. His speech, on taking upon him the office of president of the Society of Antiquaries, was prefixed to the first volume of the Archæologia. In other volumes of that work are some papers communicated by him, one of which, "Observations on the Wardrobe Account for the year 1483, wherein are contained the deliveries made for the coronation of king Richard III. and some other particulars relative to the history," was answered by Mr. Walpole, afterwards lord Orford, in a paper or essay, very characteristic of his lordship's ingenuity and haughty petulance. In the early part of his life, Dr. Milles had made ample collections for a history of Devonshire, which are noticed by Mr. Gough in his Topography. He was also engaged in illustrating the Danish coinage, and the Domesday Survey, on both which subjects, it is thought, he left much valuable matter. His worst attempt was to vindicate the authenticity of Rowley's poems, in an edition which he printed in 1782, 4to. After what Tyrwhitt and Warton had advanced on this subject, a grave answer to this was not necessary; but it was the writer's misfortune to draw upon himself the wicked wit of the author of "An Archeological Epistle," and the more wicked irony of George Steevens in the St. James's Chronicle. The dean died Feb. 13, 1784, and was buried in the church of St. Edmund, which, as well as his other preferments, he retained until his death, with the exception of the rectory of West Terring, which he resigned to his son Richard. His character is very justly recorded on his monument, as one conspicuous for the variety and extent of his knowledge, and for unremitted zeal and activity in those stations to which his merit had raised him; nor was he in private life less distinguished for sweetness of disposition, piety, and integrity.'

MILLOT (CLAUDE FRANCIS XAVIER), a late French historian, was born at Besançon, in March 1726, and belonged, for some time, to the order of Jesuits. He was one of those who were appointed to preach, and continued so to do after he had quitted that society. But the weakness of his voice, his timidity, and the embarrassed manner of his

1 Nichols's Bowyer.-Lord Orford's Works, vol. II.-Life of the Rev. Isaac Milles, by bishop Milles, 1721, 8vo.-Ware's Ireland by Harris.

tio," &c. Lond. 1673, 4to. Dr. Castel, the Arabian professor, called this "a most excellent essay, wherein the author shewed incredible reading and diligence, in perusing so many copies, versions, and various lections, with the best interpreters of sacred writ." 2. "A collection of the Church History of Palestine, from the birth of Christ, to the beginning of the empire of Diocletian," Lond. 1688, 4to. 3. "A short Dissertation concerning the four last Kings of Judah," Lond. 1689, 4to. This was occasioned by Joseph Scaliger's "Judicium de Thesi Chronologica," &c. 4. "De Nethinim sive Nethinæis, &c. et de iis qui se Corban Deo nominabant, disputatiuncula, adversus Steuch. Eugubinum, Card. Baronium," &c. Camb. 1690, 4to. 5. "An Answer to the vindication of a Letter from a person of quality in the North, concerning the profession of John, late bishop of Chichester," Lond. 1690, 4to. 6." A Defence of the Profession of John (Lake) lord bishop of Chichester, made upon his death-bed, concerning passive obedience, and the new oaths; with some passages of his lordship's life," Lond. 1690, 4to. 7. "A Defence of archbishop Usher against Dr. Cary and Dr. Is. Vossius, with an Introduction concerning the uncertainty of Chronology, and an Appendix touching the signification of the words, &c. as also the men of the great Synagogue," Camb. 1694, 8vo. 8. "A Discourse of Conscience, &c. with reflexions upon the author of Christianity not mysterious," &c. Lond. 1697, 8vo. 9. "A View of the Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, &c. lately published by the rev. Dr. Bentley. Also, of the examination of that Dissertation by the hon. Mr. Boyle," ibid. 1699, 8vo. 10. "A brief Examination of some passages in the Chronological part of a Letter written to Dr. Sherlock, in his vindication. In a letter to a friend." 11. "A further Examination of the Chronological part of that Letter. In a second letter to a friend." 12. "An Account of Mr. Locke's religion, out of his own writings, and in his own words: together with observations, and a two-fold appendix," Lond. 1700, 8vo. 13. "Animadversions upon Mons. Le Clerc's Reflections upon our Saviour and his Apostles, &c. primitive fathers, &c." Camb. 1702. He left also several manuscripts enumerated in our principal authority, on subjects of chronology, biblical criticism, &c.

I Watson's Halifax.-Thoresby's Vicaria Leodensis, p. 114, &c.—Wilford's Memorials.

MILNER (JOSEPH), a pious and learned divine and ecclesiastical historian, was born in the neighbourhood of Leeds in Yorkshire, Jan. 2, 1744, and was educated at the grammar school of his native place, where he made great proficiency in Greek and Latin, in which he was assisted by a memory of such uncommon powers, that his biographer, the present dean of Carlisle, says that he never saw bis equal, among the numerous persons of science and literature with whom he has been acquainted. This faculty which Mr. Milner possessed, without any visible decay, during the whole of his life, gained him no little reputation at school, where his master, the rev. Mr. Moore, often availed himself of his memory in cases of history and mythology, and used to say, "Milner is more easily consulted than the Dictionaries or the Pantheon, and he is quite as much to be relied on." Moore, indeed, told so many and almost incredible stories of his memory, that the rev. Mr. Murgatroyd, a very respectable clergyman, at that time minister of St. John's church in Leeds, expressed some suspicion of exaggeration. Mr. Moore was a man of the strictest veracity, but of a warm temper. He instantly offered to give satisfactory proof of his assertions. "Milner," said he, "shall go to church next Sunday, and without taking a single note at the time, shall write down your sermon afterward. Will you permit us to compare what he writes with what you preach ?" Mr. Murgatroyd accepted the proposal with pleasure, and was often heard to express his astonishment at the event of this trial of memory. "The lad," said he, " has not omitted a single thought or sentiment in the whole sermon; and frequently he has got the very words for a long way together."

About the age of thirteen, there were few of young Milner's years equally skilled in Latin and Greek, and none who were to be compared to him in the accurate and extensive knowledge of ancient history. His love of the study of history shewed itself as soon as ever he could read, and he employed his leisure hours in reading, as a weakly constitution, and early disposition to asthma, rendered him utterly incapable of mixing with his schoolfellows in their plays and diversions. This passion for the study of history continued strong for many years, and was his favourite amusement and relaxation to the last. With such acquirements, at so early an age, it cannot be thought wonderful if while among his poorer and more ignorant neighbours,