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in tlie pofll-fiiou of the fathers of the Cliiilliaii dodrinc at 

 Paris, a pl.iiit of barley, wliicli they, at that time, kept by 

 them as a curiofity, and which confifted of two hundred and 

 forty-nine ilalks Ipringing from one root, or i^rain ; and in 

 which they counted above eighteen thoufand grains, or 

 feeds of barley. 



It is noticed, too, that the great increafe which takes 

 place in the tranfplantation of wheat, depends upon tlie 

 circumftance, that each layer tlirown out in tillering may 

 be removed, and treated as a diftiuft plant. 



The following ftatement is given in the fifty-eighth vo- 

 lume of the Philofophical Tranfaftio::s, at p. 203 : Mr. C. 

 MiUer of Cambridge fowed fome wheat on tlie 2d of June, 

 1766 ; and on the 8th of Auguft, a plant was taken and 

 feparated into eighteen parts, and replanted ; thele plants 

 were again taken up, and divided in tiie months of Septem- 

 ber and Oitober, and planted out fepaiately to ftand the 

 ■winter, which divifion produced fixty-feven plants. They 

 ■were again taken up in March and April, and produced five 

 hundred plants: the number of ears thus formed from one 

 giain of wheat was twenty -one thoufand one hundred and 

 nine, which gave three pecks and three-quarters of corn, 

 that weighed 47lbs. 7 oz. ; and that were eflimated at five 

 hundred and leventy-fix thoufand eight hundred and forty 

 grains. 



There is a number of fafts and cafes of the vaft increafe 

 of grain crops by tillering, fcattered tlirough the writings 

 on agriculture and hufbandry, which clearly (hew the great 

 utility and importance of it in the raifing of fuch crops. 



Tiller of a Ship, a long piece of timber (which 

 fhould be ftraight-grained and free from knots) fitted into 

 the head of the rudder as a lever, to turn it from one fide 

 to the other, in order to fleer the fliip. Tliis term, or hich, 

 is ufed for the handle of a boat's rudder. 



TlLLER-/io/>f, a kind of tackle, communicating with the 

 (hip's fide, and ufually compofed of untarred rope-yarn for 

 the purpofe of traverfing more readily through the blocks 

 or pullies : this tackle ferves to guide and affift the opera- 

 tions of the tiller, and in all large vefiels is wound about a 

 wheel, which afts upon it with the powers of a crane or 

 windlafs. 



TILLERING, in Jgrlcuhure. See Tiller. 



TILLEWALL, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, in 

 Oberland ; 5 miles N.E. of Eylau. 



TILLIE^RES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Eure ; 6 miles N.E. of Verneuil. 



TILLING, a town of Sweden, in the province of Up- 

 land ; 23 miles S.E. of Upfal. 



TILLIUM, or TiLiUM, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 on the weftern coall of the ifle of Sardinia, between the 

 promontory Gorditanum and port Nymphaeus. Ptol. 



TILLONGCHOOL, or Katchal, in Geography, one 

 of the Nicobar iflands, of a triangular form, about 36 miles 

 in circumference. N. lat. 7" 58'. E. long. 93^ 50'. 



TILLOT, Le, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Vofges ; 12 miles S.E. of Plombieres. 



TILLOTSON, John, in Biography, acelebrated Englifli 

 prelate, defcended from an ancient family in Chefhire, was 

 the fon of Robert Tillotfon, a clothier at Sowerby, in the 

 parifli of Halifax, Yorkfhire, where he was born in the 

 year 1630. Having been brought up in the principles of 

 his father, who was a Calviniftic puritan, and difcovering 

 an inclination to literature, he was entered in his 17th year 

 a penfioner of Clare-Hall, Cambridge. In 1651 he was 

 elefted fellow of his college, and took pupils, to whole 

 moral and religious inftruftion he was duly attentive. At 

 this time, he was in his fentiments Calviniftic, heard fuch 



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preachers, and ufed extemporaneous prayer. His views of 

 theology were enlarged loon after he left college in 1656, 

 by the perufal of Chillingworth's " Religion of Proteftants." 

 But retaining his attaclnnent to the Prefbytcrian form of 

 church government, he was received into the family of 

 Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to the Protcftor, as chap- 

 lain and tutor to his fon. He attended the Savoy conference 

 in July 1661, aiid preached a fermon (the firft which he 

 preached) at tlieir morning exercife in Cripplegate, in the 

 month of September. Under the A A of Uniformity in 1662, 

 to which he fubmitted, lie became curate at Chefliunt, in 

 Hertfordlhire. In London he was much admired as a 

 preacher, and was chofen miiiiiler by one of the parifhes, 

 but declined accepting the office, becaufe the vacancy had 

 been occafioned by tlie refufal of Mr. Edm. Calamy to 

 comply with the Bartholomew Aft. From a reftory in 

 Suffolk, to which he was prefented, he removed to the office 

 of preacher to the fociety at Lincoln's Inn. In l664he 

 married the daughter of Dr. French, cauon of Chriftchurch, 

 by a filter of Oliver Cromwell ; and in j 665 he was ap- 

 pointed lefturer to the parifli of St. Laurence Jewry. His 

 reputation as a preacher was very confiderably increafed at 

 this time by his printed fermon, " On the Wifdom of being 

 religious." His controverfy on popery commenced with 

 the pubhcation of his " Rule of Faith," in anfwcr to a book 

 written by a convert to the Romifh church. The part he 

 took in a fcheme for comprehending difTcnters under the 

 eftablifhraent, evinced his refpetl for that defcription of 

 Chrillians and Proteftants. (See CoMrKEllENSlON.) In 

 1666 he took his degree of D.D., and in 1669 he was 

 made a king's chaplain, and was prefented to a prebend 

 of Canterbury. When king Charles, in 1672, ifi'ued a de- 

 claration for liberty of confcience, with a view of favouring 

 the Roman Catholics, the bifliops took the alarm, and 

 recommended to the clergy to preach againft popery. 

 The king was difpleufed, and Tillotfon, at a meeting of the 

 clergy convoked by the bifhop of London, fuggeiled the 

 following apology for their conduft : " That fince his ma- 

 jefty profefted the Proteftant rehgion, it would be an un- 

 precedented thing that he fhould forbid his clergy to preach 

 in defence of a faith which they believed, and which he 

 declared to be his own." Soon after this he preached 

 a fermon at Whitehall on the hazard of falvation in the 

 church of Rome ; and yet, offenfive as this fermon muft 

 have been, he was advanced, in 1672, to the deanery of 

 Canterbury, which was followed, in 1673, by a prefentation 

 to a prebend of St. Paul's. At this time he publifhed 

 Dr. Wilkins's " Principles of Natural Religion," with a 

 recommendatory preface ; and the author, who died in his 

 houfe, committed to him the difpofal of his papers. A 

 fimilar truft was rcpofed in him by Dr. Barrow. His 

 dread of popery induced him, in 1 680, to preach before the 

 king a fermon, afterwards publifhed by the royal command, 

 and entitled " The Proteftant Religion vindicated from the 

 Charge of Singulaiity and Novelty." In this fermon a 

 paragraph was introduced which incurred the charge of 

 intolerance. " I cannot think," fays he, " till I be better 

 informed, which I am ;Jways ready to be, that any pretence 

 of confcience warrants any man that is not extraordinarily 

 commiffioned, as the apofllcs and firft preachers of the 

 gofpel were, and cannot juftify tliat commiffion by miracles, 

 as they did, to affront the eitablifhed religion of a nation, 

 though it be falfe, and openly to draw men off from the 

 profeffion of il, in contempt of the magi Urate and the law. 

 All that perfons of a different religion can in fuch a cafe 

 reafonably pretend to is, to enjoy the private liberty and 

 exercife of their own confcience and religion, for vuhicli 

 4 O they 



