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lor of divinity; and in the following year was prefented 
by his college to the reftory of Blechingdon in Oxford- 
ftiire. He proceeded D. D. in the year laH mentioned ; 
about which time he was nominated chaplain in ordinary 
to king Charles II. Dr. Mill had now been employed for 
Ibme years in preparing for the p.refs his very valuable 
edition of the New Teftament, which will tranfinit his 
name with diftinguilhed honour to pofterity. This grand 
and elaborate work he had been advifed and encouraged 
to undertake by Dr. John Fell, bilhop of Oxford ; and 
the impreffion was begun at the printing-houfe near the 
theatre in that city, at his lordlhip’s expenfe. The death 
of the bilhop, however, occurring when about fifteen 
Iheets had been worked off, and his executors not being 
willing to proceed with the work, Dr. Mill refunded to 
them fuch turns as his lordfhip had advanced, and deter¬ 
mined to complete it at his own ritk. To this noble un¬ 
dertaking he devoted the thirty laft years of his life, with 
the molt patient afliduity, as well as Icrupulous care ; and 
he had the fatisfaflion of feeing his uleful labours brought 
to a clofe, and the fruits cf them prefented to the world. 
In 1685 Dr. Mill was eledted principal of St. Edmund’s 
Hall in Oxford ; which preferment was very acceptable, 
as it gave him an honourable fettlement in the univerfity, 
and enabled him to profecute his defign to the utmoft ad¬ 
vantage. He was alfo further rewarded for engaging in 
it, by a prefentation to a prebendal ftall in the cathedral 
of Canterbury, which Dr. Sharp, archbilhop of York, ob¬ 
tained for him from queen Anne, in the year 1704. His 
work made its appearance in 1707; but lie did not fur- 
vive this event more than a fortnight, being carried off" 
by a ftroke of apoplexy, when he was in the 63d year of 
his age. 
Dr. Mill’s great work is entitled, “ Novum Teftaraen- 
tum Graecum, cum Ledtiqnibus variantibus MSS. Exem- 
plarium, Verfionum, Editionum, SS. Patrum et Scrip- 
torum ecclefiafticorum; et in eafdem Notis, &c.” in folio. 
It is founded upon, and is an improvement of, Robert 
Stephens’s fumptuous and elegant folio edition, publiffied 
at Paris in 1550, which has in the inner margin the col¬ 
lation of iixteen manufcripts ; and of biftiop Fell’s neat 
and accurate edition in odlavo, publilhed at Oxford in 
1675. To the various readings in the former, our author 
has added thole of fixteen other manufcripts out of the 
Engliih Polyglot Bible. He alio collated himfelf all the 
valuable manufcripts in England ; and procured colla¬ 
tions of the moll: efteemed ones at Rome, Paris, Vienna, 
and other places, as well as of the ancient tranflations. 
As the work is now fcarce, we lhall here let down the or¬ 
der in which it is diftributed. At the top of each page is 
the facred text, in a large and beautiful character; to 
which fucceed the parallel places of lcripture, intermixed 
with jcholia , or Ihort explanatory notes, taken from the 
fathers and other ancient Chriftian writers. At the bot¬ 
tom of .each page are the various readings in two co¬ 
lumns; with the editor’s judgment upon moil of them, 
notes, and lometimes long and curious differtations. To 
the whole are prefixed learned prolegomena, treating of 
the books of the New Tellament, and of the fettling of 
the facred canon ; of the condition and ftate of the 
text of the New Teftament, through all the ages of the 
church; with an account of the ancient commentators 
upon it, tranflations, and moll conliderable editions; 
and concerning this edition in particular. This New 
Tellament was re-printed at Rotterdam in 1710, in folio, 
by Ludolph Kulter, who reviled Dr. Mill’s colledtion, in¬ 
troduced fome alterations in the difpofition of the notes 
and the divifion of the prolegomena into fedtions, with the 
defign of rendering them Hill more convenient, and aug¬ 
mented it with the collation of twelve new manufcripts. 
It was alio reprinted at Leipficin 1723. The appearance 
of this work gave great latisfadlion to the learned world 
in general; but there were fome few who doubted if it 
might not tend to unhinge the minds of people, by coun¬ 
tenancing the notion that the text was precarious, as the 
author had colledted thirty thoufand various readings. 
On this account Dr. Whitby made it the fubjedl of an at¬ 
tack, which was ably anfwered by Mr. Whifton, and ftili 
more fully by Dr. Bentley, in the thirty-fecond fedtion of 
his remarks upon it, under the affumed title of Phileleu- 
therus Lipfienfis. Biog. Brit. 
MILL BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Stronfa. Lat. 58. 59. N. Ion. 2. 20. W. 
MILL'-COG, J\ The denticulations on the circumfe¬ 
rence of wheels, by which they lock into other wheels.—• 
The timber is uleful for mill-cogs. Mortimer's Hufb. • 
MILL CREE'K, a river of Virginia, which runs into 
the Ohio in lat. 40. 36. N. Ion. 80. 36. W. 
MILL'-DAM, f. The mound by which the water is 
kept up to raifie it for the mill.—A very firm way of mak¬ 
ing mill-dams in a quick or running fand, which is ufu- 
ally found a very troublefome circumltance, is by laying 
the foundation with unflaked lime; which, by flaking 
among the fand, runs together into a hard-ftone, which 
gives a very firm and fure foundation. Plott's Stafford- 
Jhire, p. 336. 
MILL GAU'T, a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of 
Hindia, on the left bank of the Nerbudda : ten miles eall 
of Hindia. 
MILL-HO'LMS, f. A term applied to the low meadows, 
and other fields in the vicinity of mills, or watery places 
about mill-dams. The foil in thefie cafes is generally of 
a good quality. 
MILL'-HORSE, f. A horfe that turns a mill.—A mill- 
liorfe, Hill bound to go in one circle. Sidney. 
MILL'-HOUSE, J\ The houfe or room in which a mill 
is fet up. 
MILL I'SLANDS, four fmall iflands in Hudfon’s Bay. 
Lat. 64. 30. N. Ion. 78. 30. to 79.40. W. 
MILL'-POND, or Mill-pool, j , A head of water 
dammed up to drive a mill. 
MILL-REE'K, f. An appellation given by the miners, 
employed at the lead-hills in Scotland, to thole affedlions 
cf the bowels, and of the nervous fyftem, which are occa- 
fioned by the poifon of the lead. The melting-houfes, in 
which the operations are carried on, are called mills, be- 
caule the bellows there are worked by water-wheels ; and 
the reek, or fmoke, arifing from the melted lead, is be¬ 
lieved to be the chief caufe of the difeafe 5 whence the 
term mill-reek has been appropriated to the malady. Ejjays 
and Obf. Phyf. and Liter, art. xxii. 
MILL-SIX'PENCE, f. One of the firll milled pieces of 
money ufed in England, and coined in 1561. Donee .— 
Seven groats in mill-Jixpenees, and two Edward fliovel- 
boards that coll me two lhillings and two pence apiece. 
ShakeJ'peare's Merry Wives of Windjor. 
MILL'-STONE, /.’ The Hone by which corn is com¬ 
minuted.—No man ihall take the nether or the upper mill- 
Jtone to pledge. Dent. xxiv. 6. 
The Hones made ufe of in grinding grain and other fub- 
ftances are of different kinds, according to the purpofes 
for which they are employed ; but thole chiefly uleid in 
grinding wheat into flour, were formerly imported from 
France, and termed burrs. Lately, however, Hones pro¬ 
per for this ufe have been dilcovered in different parts of 
this kingdom, as in Wales and Scotland. In the rirlt of. 
thele places they were found by Mr. Bowes, in a quarry 
which is fituated within the corporation-liberties of Con¬ 
way : the Hone appears within a quarter of a mile of that 
town, and extends from eaH to well for the dillance of two. 
miles, appearing in moH places upon the filrface within 
that dillance. Such an immenfe body of the Hone has 
been left bare and expofed to view,, that the induHry of 
age: would fcarcely leffen it. A deep chafin intervenes at 
the end of two miles; and, on examining the fame line 
acrofs this valley, he found the Hone mixed up with va¬ 
rious other foffil fubfiances, to which it feems to bear no 
relation. In the next rife of mountains it relumes its 
quality, and takes a foutherly direction, palling through 
a, range of hills to the dillance of two miles more, where 
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