MILL, JoHN, D.D., was born at Shap in Westmoreland, about 1645, and died June 23, 1707. He entered as servitor at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1661 ; took his degree of B.A. in 1666 ; his Master's degree in 1669 ; and was soon afterwards chosen fellow and tutor of his college. In 1676 he became chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Lamplugh) ; and in 1681 obtained the rectory of Blechingdon, in Oxfordshire, and was made chaplain to Charles II. He was ap pointed principal of St. Edmund's Hall in 1685, and held the appointment till his death. Dr. Mill rendered great service to the cause of Biblical science by his edition of the Greek Testament, undertaken by the advice of Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, and completed only fourteen days before his own death : KAINII D1ADHKH, NOV11711 Testamentunz Gra'cum, cum lectionibus variantibus MSS. Exemplarizim, Versionunz, Editionum SS. Patrum et Scriptoruni Ecclesiasticortztn, et in easdenz notis Studio et labore yohannis millii S. T. P.,
Oxonii 1707, folio. Dr. Mill devoted thirty years of his life to this work, which was greatly in ad vance of everything of the kind which preceded it. The text is that of R. Stephens of 155o, between which, however, and the Elzevir, Dr. Davidson says it fluctuates.' The editor recognised the importance of each element of critical evidence' (Tregeiles). He inserted in his notes all previously existing collections of various readings, adding to them many others as the result of his own exami nation of ancient sources. The various readings, said to amount to 30,000, were attacked by Dr. Whitby in his Examen—as if attacks could anni hilate facts. Collins applied Whitby's reasonings against the Scriptures themselves, but he was triumphantly answered by Bentley in his Phileleu therus Lipsiensis. Kuster reprinted Mill's Testa ment at Rotterdam in 171o, with the readings of twelve additional MSS. [KusTER.]—I. J.