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principally to the instruction and improvement of the 

 working classes. The first number appeared in .Tnlv 



and it was discontinued soon afler Ins death, which took 



.1, on the 20th of January, 



Tilloch married early in life. His wife "died in 17*.!. 



who becau; Gait. 



uliar, and he was one of 



.ot a small body who took 



the name of Cb -. and nut for worship in a 



private ho 



of many learned 'ritain and elsewhere, 



and was propo- 



a fellow Of the K ut his nan. 



withdrawn :nmg to the ballot, in co:iseqn 



anii.- at he would be objected to, not on ao 



of a;r v in talent or character, hut solely because 



tor of a newspaper. A memoir of Dr. 



Tilloch appeared in the 'Imperial Magazine ' foKMarch, 



from which, with the ;.- i other obituary 



notices, the above account is condensed. This was re- 

 printed in the last number of the ' Mechanic's U. 

 with a portrait. 



TII.LOTSOX. .10I1N, D.D. born UxJO, died 1C 

 prelate and one of the most celcbiated divines of the 

 Church of Kngland. He was born at Soweihy in York- 

 shire, a member of the great parish of Halifax, of a Puritan 

 family. His father, who was engaged in the clothing trade, 

 belonged to that extreme section i>f the Puritans who 

 -tablishing a genera! system of Independency, and 

 be belonged himself to an Independent church, of which 

 Mr. H Alter having been a pupil in 



the grain';, ntry, the writers of his Life 



not having told us what scb : an, but doubtless the 



grammar-school at Halifax became a pensioner of 



.bridge, in 1017. and a fellow of the c 



in Ki-'il. It appears that he remained in the University till 



IC57. Puritanism was at that, period in the ascendency at 



Cambridge : but Tillotson very early freed himself from his 



educational prejudices, became a great admirer of the 



writings of Chillingwoith, and soon showed himself one of 



a class of per-ons who were then beginning to be coii-idcr- 



able in Kngland. who, taking their stand on the Scriptures, 



opposed themselves at once to Homanism on the one 



hand and to Calvinism on the other. This position he 



ever after maintained, and his celebrity arises principally 



from the ability with which he illustiated and defended, 



both from the pulpit and the press, the' principles of 



-in. and of a rational and moderate orthodoxy. 



It may he . that -o much of the effects of his 



original Puritan education remained with him, that he 



Whig, although it must be owned that he 



Mined and occasionally expressed notions of the duly 



liich. if acted upon, would have maintained 



on the throne. 



ore he entered holy ordeis, he was tutor in the 

 family of Prideanx. the attorney-general to Cromwell. 

 This led to his residence in London, and brought him into 

 acquaintance with several eminent persons. I Ie w as thirty 

 yeaw of age before h. ordination, and the service 



:rs to have been performed with sonic drg 

 privacy, n- it is. we believe, not known when or where it 

 :ined, and only that the bishop fiom whose hands 

 lie received it vvas not a bishop of the Kuglisli church, 

 but the bishop of (talway in Scotland. Dr. '1 homas Sydserf. 

 All tl ! iinperleclioiis 'of his 



asserted t! ought 



before the public by the noii-juring paitv. when tl 

 him elevated to the prii : which Bancroft had 



retired. 



li is said by his biographer. Dr. Thomas Uirch. that he 

 was not p. 'islied with the terms of m'lM 



conformity required by the act of ICIiJ, which i 



'linrch of Km:! ..n the whole he 



r to nccc| 'ime a 



nt'oimable III'IM ' church. 



H. y.a, for a short tune curate at Cheshunt. and also 

 ' time rector of Kcttoii in Suffolk, a living to 

 which h. 



of tiw Puritan friend*. Hut IP Mo a wider 



1. in llidl. the preacher at 

 's Church in 



the Je ,s that those sermons were iirca. 



which attracted crowds of the most accomplished and the 

 learned of the time, and which have been since read and 

 studied by many succeeding divines of eminence, and are 

 at this day the basis of Ins fame. 



The course of his preferment in the church during the 

 reign ot Charles 11. was l(i(ii). a prebendary in the church 

 .lerbury; ll>7'-!. anterbnry ; 1<;7~>, a pre- 



bendary in the church of St. Paul ; and 1U77. a canon 

 residentiary in the .-.anie cathedral. Hut as soon as Kim,' 

 \Villiam was established on the throne he was made 

 of St. Paul's and clerk of the closet ; and in April. lOill, 

 he was nominated by the king to the arclibishopric of 

 Canterbury, an appointment which appears to have been 

 really received by him with reluctance, and winch 

 posed him to no small share of envy from very ditt'erent 

 parties. The truth is. that besides bis eminent merits 

 having been the ablest opposer both of popery and 

 irreli^ion, in a reisjn when the tendencies of ' 



\alted stations were in one of these direct 

 he had a strong personal interest in the new ki. 

 lions, who is .said, on credible authority, to have 

 that there was no honcster man than Dr. Tillostoii. nor 

 had he ever a better friend. He was archbishop only three 

 years and a half, dyiiiLT at the ai;e of sixty-four, lie was 

 interred in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, which had 

 been the cli: : his hiirh popularity. 



He ilied ()0or. He had survived both his children: 

 but he left a widow, who \\as a : '.] and the 



isrhter of Hisho|> \Vilkins, without any 

 exi'ept the copyright of his works, which it issaidprmi 



The kin^ granted her a peiiMon, fii-st cf -1(M)/.. and 

 afterwards of 200.'. more, which she enjoved till her death 

 in 1702. 



An account of the Life of Dr. Tillotson was published in 

 s\o.. 1717- There i- a n.uch larger Life of him by Dr. 

 liirch. prefixed to an edition of the works of Tillotson, and 

 published also in an Svo. volume, the second edition of 

 which was printed in l7-~':i, containing additional m; ' 

 There is also an account of him in Le Xeve's Lives of the 

 Prote>1ant Archbishops of Kngland.' Hirch's edition of 

 the Works is in :> vols. folio, 17^)2. 



TILLY, or T1I.LI, .JOHN TSKKCLAS Count of, was 

 the s in of Martin 'IVerclas, of Tilly. The Tserclas, whose 

 is also written T'Seiclaes, were an old patrician 

 family of Hrussels ; John, a member of this family, ac- 

 quired, in 14 IS. the lordship of Tilly, in South lirai 

 John Tilly was born in 155!), at the castle of Tilly, and he 

 early entered the order of ' 'i whom he acquired 



that spirit of fanaticism, of blind obedience, and of abso- 

 lute command, which distinguished him during his whole 

 life. He soon abandoned 1. -lical profession, and 



of Philip II. , kiiii: i'f Spain and K:itl of 

 the Netherlands, and he learned the pi: war 



under Alba,* Requeaens, the governor of th' -inds. 



Don Juan of Austria, and Alexander ' 



of the Spaniards auain-t the Pmlestaiit inl.abitants of the 



MI Netherlands he acquired that hatred of heretics 

 and thai warlike enthusiasm for the Roman Catholic reli- 

 gion, which became one of the most prominent features of 

 his ehaiacter. Towards the end of the sixteenth century 

 ilie service of the emperor Rudolph II. , and 

 distinguished himself, first its lieutenant-colonel, ami 

 'loncl and commander of a regiment of 

 Walloons, in the wars against the Hungarian insni: 

 and II: 1 III. and Ahmed I. Alter the ] 



of Sitvatorok in KKH}. between Rudolph II. and Ahmed I.. 

 pointed roiiimamlcr-in-cliicf of the ainn of 

 uilian. duke of Havana, which was in a veiy d 



'e. In HiO!) Tilly commanded the ex|icdition 

 against Donauwcilh, an ini]ierial town which had I 

 put under the ban for having persecuted the Roman 

 Catholics, and which surrendered to Tilly without ileti 

 The I.ig.i. or the union of the Roman Cathohi 



appointed him <-omniaiider-in-chicl' of 

 . and he held this high office until his death. Tilly 

 gained the (ii-st great victory in the Thirty Years' Uar, 

 which broke out in KilH. [T'liiicrv YKAUS' WAR.] After 

 having coii(]iiercd the' Upper Palatinate with the troo: 

 \\>c I.ig.i and those of the duke of Havana, he i.n.po-, 



ipeiuil geiieials to pursue the armv of I-'rederiek, 



king of Itoheinia. insteail of taking wint. | and 



all the fruits of their comjuc.sts. Warfare in 



