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ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS; 
OR, AN 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE. 
7 / 
T I L L O T S O N. 
T ILLEMONT (Louis Sebastian leNain de), a French ec¬ 
clesiastical writer, was born at Paris, in 1637. From early 
life he devoted himself to the study of ecclesiastical antiquity. 
Modest and diffident, as well as learned, he deferred taking 
priests’ orders till his 40th year ; and having done this, he 
declined all preferment, and retired first to Port-Royal-des- 
Champs, and then to Tillemont, near Vincennes, prosecut¬ 
ing his literary labours, and keeping in view his main ob¬ 
ject: he subjected himself at the same time to very rigid 
penitentiary discipline. His austerities and intense applica¬ 
tion debilitated his constitution to such a degree, that he 
died in 1698, at the age of 61 years. 
The plan of his great work comprehended two parts, viz. 
the secular and the ecclesiastical history of the period of 
which he proposed to treat. Accordingly, the first part, 
entitled “ Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire Ecclesiastique 
des six premiers Siecles,” was comprised in 16 vols. 4to., of 
which four volumes were published in his life-time, and 
twelve more after his death. The other part, entitled “ L’His¬ 
toire des Empereurs et des autres Princes qui ont regne durant 
les six premiers Siecles de PEglise,” consists of 6 vols. 4to., 
the last being left in MS. and not published till 1738, finish¬ 
ing with the Emperor Anastasius. Dupin, though he disap¬ 
proves the method of Tillemont, observes, that great instruc¬ 
tion may be derived from his history, especially with respect 
to critical and chronological matters. His style merits no 
commendation. Gibbon, who often quotes his History of 
the Emperors, and praises his scrupulous accuracy, finds fre¬ 
quent occasion to censure his bigotry, and remarks, that 
** he never dismisses a virtuous emperor without pronouncing 
his damnation.” Moreri. Gen. Bios'. 
TILLENDORF, a large village of Prussian Silesia, in the 
circle ofBuntzlau, with 1000 inhabitants. 
TILLER, s. Husbandman ; ploughman. 
The worm that gnaws the ripening fruit, sad guest! 
Canker or locust hurtful to infest 
The blade; while husks elude the tiller 's care. 
And eminence of want distinguishes the year. Prior. 
The rudder of a boat. The horse that goes in the thill: 
properly thillcr. A till; a small drawer. 
Search her cabinet, and thou shalt find 
Each tiller there with love-epistles lin’d. Dry den. 
A young timber-tree in a growing state : a technical word 
with woodmen.—-This- they usually make of a curved tiller. 
Evelyn. 
TtLLIERES, a small town in the north of France, on the 
small river Arve, with 100.0 inhabitants, and manufactures 
of iron; 5 miles north-east of Verneuil, and 22 south of 
Evreux. 
TILLINGHAM, a parish of England, in Essex; 2 miles 
south-by-west of Broadwell, near the sea. Population 760. 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1623. 
TILLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of St. 
Mary, in Staffordshire. 
TILLINGTON, a parish of England, in Sussex, near Pel- 
worth. Population 650. 
TILLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Herefordshire; 
5 miles north-west-by-north of Hereford. 
TILLOUTA, a town of Hindostan, province of Bahar, and 
district of Rotas It is pleasantly situated on the north-west 
bank of the river Soane. Lat. 24. 48. N. long. 84. 15. E. 
TILLOTSON (John), a celebrated English prelate, de¬ 
scended from an ancient family in Cheshire, was the son of 
Robert Tillotson, a clothier at Sowerby, in the parish of 
Halifax, Yorkshire, where he was born in the year 1630. 
In 1651, he was elected fellow of Clare-Hall, Cambridge; but 
retaining his attachment to the Presbyterian form of church 
government, he was received into the family of Edmund 
Prideaux, attorney-general to the Protector, as chaplain and 
tutor. He attended the Savoy conference in July 1661, and 
preached a sermon (the first which he preached) at their 
morning exercise in Cripplegate, in the month of September. 
Under the Act of Uniformity in 1662, to which he sab'mfttedj 
he became curate at Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. In 1664, he 
married the daughter of Dr. French, canon of Christchurch, 
by a sister of Oliver Cromwell; and in 1665, he was ap¬ 
pointed lecturer to the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry. His 
reputation as a preacher was very considerably increased at 
this time by his printed sermon, “ On the Wisdom of being 
religious.” His controversy on Popery commenced with the 
publication of his “ Rule of Faith,” in answer to a book 
written by a convert to the Romish church. In 1666, he 
took his degree of D.D., and in 1669 he was made a king’s 
chaplain, and was presented to a prebend of Canterbury. 
When king Charles, in 1672, issued a declaration for liberty 
of conscience, with a view of favouring the Roman Catholics, 
the bishops took the alarm, and recommended to the clergy 
to preach against popery. The king was displeased, and 
Tillotson, at a meeting of the clergy convoked bv the bishop 
of London, suggested the following apology for their con¬ 
duct : “ That since his majesty professed the Protestant re¬ 
ligion, it would be an unprecedented thing that he should 
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 sermon at Whitehall on the hazard of 
salvation in the church of Rome; and yet, offensive as this 
sermon must have been, he was advanced, in 1672, to the 
deanery of Canterbury, which was followed, in 1673, by a 
presentation to a prebend of St. Paul’s. At this time he 
published Dr. Wilkins’s “ Principles of Natural Religion," 
with a recommendatory preface; and the author, who died 
in his house, committed to him the disposal of his papers. 
A similar trust was reposed in him by Dr. Barrow. His 
dread of popery induced him, in 1680, to preach before the 
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