William de Mesleriis, Eguerrand, Fromund, Simon, and Walter de Meuleriis, are mentioned in the Norman Exchequer Rolls during the last years of the twelfth century. In England two under-tenants of the name occur in 1165: Richard, holding two knight’s fees, and Humphrey, holding one, both of William de Abrincis. A William de Minières witnesses Richard de Builli’s foundation charter of Roche Abbey, York, in 1146, as well as that of Boxgrave, in Sussex.

“Humphrey de Millers held one knight’s fee of William de Abrincis in Overston (Liber Niger) and received the manor of Overston in marriage with William’s sister Felicia. He left two sons, William, and Ralph, rector of Overston; which William also had two sons, William, and Humphrey, rector of Overston, and a daughter, Felicia, who, on the death of her brothers without issue, became their heir. She was succeeded by her son Gilbert, who was a clerk, and is sometimes called Gilbert de Wyarville, and sometimes Gilbert de Millers. In 1257 he obtained a license of hunting in the counties of Northampton, Nottingham, and Derby; but in 1270 the King arraigned an assize against him, and in 1276 his manor of Overstone was in the hands of the Crown.” - Baker's Northamptonshire. There was a family of this name in Norfolk, where Robert de Milliers “was enfeoffed of Gonville’s Manor by Roger de Montealt; he held it at half a fee of Roger’s castle of Rising; it afterwards belonged to Godfrey de Milliers. Hugh de Meliers held Fenthall temp. John, and when one of his sons became a monk in St.Benet’s Abbey, Alice de Meliers, his widow, gave two parts of the tithes of her demesnes here to that house; in 1294 Sir Hugh, their son, was lord; and after him Richer de Meliers. William de Mellers, 2 Richard II., held one fee in Wymondham and Rising.”— Blomfield. Roger de Millers was of Dorsetshire, temp. Ed. I.; (Rotul. Hundred.) where, according to the Testa de Nevill, he held in King’s Winterborne some land that had been Thomas Maufilart’s. The name continued in the county for many generations. John Meller, 2 Elizabeth, acquired from the Earl of Pembroke Winterborne-Came, where (as appears from the pedigree) his father and grandfather had been seated before him: and, some years later, Upcerne and Little Bridy. His son Sir Robert in 1620 bequeathed ₤20 a year to the poor of Cerne and Upcerne. “During the Rebellion, Sir John Meller compounded, and paid ₤693 13s. 4d. for being a Commissioner of Array. John his son, 1651, compounded for delinquency ₤630, but was excused. 1 Jac. II. c. 7, an Act passed to enable Edward Meller to sell lands for the payment of debts. He died without issue, 1699, at Cheneys in Bucks, where he retired after having alienated the greater part of his estate. Vulgar tradition, founded it may be merely on the name, says, the ancestor of this family was miller to the Abbot of Abbotsbury. We have no other account of their extraction, which does not seem to be great: however, in the reign of Elizabeth they made many purchases of Abbey lands, viz. Little Bridy, Winterborne Came, Winterbourne Faringdon, Upcerne, &c., and were remarkable for depopulating most of them. They were first seated at Winterborne Came, where was their place of burial.”— Hutchins' Dorset. They bore Azure four mascles in lozenge Or.