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 THOMAS MILLES,

ANTIQUARY,

Thomas Milles was a native of Ashford. He was Customer of the port of Sandwich, and at one time Governor of Rochester Castle. He completed the work called "The Catalogue of Honour, or Treasury of True Nobility," commenced by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald (who was his uncle), and printed in 1610. He was also the author of two other works known as "The Customer's Alphabet" and "The Customer's Reply." The dates of his birth and death are unknown.

[See "Hasted's Kent," "Noble's College of Arms."]

CHARLES MILLS,

HISTORIAN,

Was the son of a physician at Greenwich, where he was born in 1788. He served his time as clerk to a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn, but he relinquished his legal pursuits for literature. In 1817 he published a "History of Mahommedanism," which was followed in 1819 by a "History of the Crusades," "The Travels of Theodore Ducas" (a voyage imaginaire, like that of Anarcharsis), and a "History of Chivalry." The works give evidence of much talent, taste, and learning, but are now so little known that a modem writer asks—"Who was Charles Mills?" and replies to the question, "I answer, many a worse man, many a writer with one-third of his knowledge has lived and does live; whilst he is chiefly to be found in a dusty back room