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king a sermon, afterwards published by the royal command, 
and entitled “ The Protestant Religion vindicated from the 
Charge of Singularity and Novelty.” In this sermon a 
paragraph was introduced which incurred the charge of in¬ 
tolerance. It was unworthy of Dr. Tillotson, and gave very 
general offence, both to the established clergy and Presby¬ 
terians. Tillotson was an ardent promoter of the Bill of 
Exclusion, nor would he concur in the address of the Lon¬ 
don clergy to the king on his declaration that he could not 
consent to such a bill. In 1682, he took occasion to vin¬ 
dicate the character of Dr. Wilkins from the aspersion of 
Anthony Wood, by a preface to a volume of sermons, which 
he published from the doctor’s MSS. He was also the editor, 
in 1683, of Dr. Barrow’s sermons, in 3 vols. fol. It has 
been regretted, as an inconsistency in the character of Til¬ 
lotson, that when in company with Burnet he attended lord 
Russel preparatory to his execution, they should urge this 
martyr to liberty to acknowledge tire absolute unlawfulness 
of resistance, though they were soon after decided friends 
to the revolution. By a “ Discourse against Transubstan- 
tiafion,” and another “ Against Purgatory,” he commenced 
a prolonged controversy with the Papists. After the settle¬ 
ment of the Prince of Orange at St. James’s, he was instru¬ 
mental in persuading the princess Anne, who consulted him, 
to acquiesce in giving up her claim to the crown during the 
life of William, in case of her sister’s dying before him. In 
1689, he was appointed clerk of the closet to the king, and 
permitted to exchange the deanery of Canterbury for that of 
St. Paul’s. He failed in an attempt to introduce a new 
book of Homilies. In a sermon preached before the queen, 
against the absolute eternity of hell torments, he excited the 
resentment and opposition of the orthodox party ; but he 
was consecrated to the archbishopric of Canterbury in May 
1691, and also in a little while sworn a member of the privy- 
council. From this time he became very obnoxious to 
the high church zealots, who attacked him in a variety of 
ways. 
Among other charges against him, one was his attachment 
to Socinian principles, which seems to have had no other 
foundation than his rational defence of Christianity, and his 
friendship and intercourse with Locke, Limborch, and Le 
Clerc; and for repelling which, he caused to be republished, 
in 1693, four of his sermons “ On the Divinity and Incar¬ 
nation of our Saviour.” The archbishop’s assiduity and zeal 
in the duties of his exalted station wer'e highly exemplary and 
laudable. At length the period of his usefulness terminated, 
in consequence of a paralytic stroke, which seized him, No¬ 
vember, 1694, in the chapel of Whitehall, and which, on 
the fifth day, proved fatal, in the 65th year of his age. He 
left a widow, but no children; and as he took no pains to 
accumulate property, his debts could not have been paid, if 
the king had not remitted his first-fruits. Tillotson’s ser¬ 
mons, though surpassed by the correctness and elegance of 
modern compositions in this department, and less perused 
than formerly, will not cease to be regarded as a valuable 
part of English literature. Gen. Biog. 
TILLY, or St. Antoine, a seigniory of Lower Canada, 
in the county of Buckingham, and on the south side of the 
St. Lawrence. 
TILLYCOULTRY, a parish of Scotland, in Clafckmanan- 
shire, of an oblong form; 6 miles long and from 1 to 2 
broad. Population 1025. 
TILLYCOULTRY, a village of the above parish, seated at 
the foot of the Ochil hills, on the road from Stirling to Kin¬ 
ross ; 4 miles west of Dollar. 
TILLYDUFF, Point, a cape of Scotland, on the north¬ 
east coast of the county of Aberdeen; 4 miles north-north¬ 
west of Rattery-IIead. 
TI'LLYFALLY, or Ti'llyvali.ey, adv. [a hunting 
phrase borrowed from the French, ty a liillaut et vallcey, 
Venerie de Jacques Fouilloux, 1585, fol. 12. Douce.] A 
word used formerly when any thing said was rejected as 
trifling or impertinent.—Am not I consanguineous? Am 
not I of her blood ? t illy valley, lady! Shakspeare. 
Tl'LMAN, s. Onewhotiils; an husbandman. 
Good shepherd, good tilman, good Jack and good Gil, 
Makes husband and huswife their coffers to fil. Tusser. 
TILMANSTONE, a parish of England, in Kent; 5 miles 
west-by-south of Deal. 
TILNEY ALL SAINTS, a parish of England, in Nor¬ 
folk ; 4 miles west-by-south of Lynn Regis. Population 374. 
TILNEY ST. LAWRENCE, a parish in the same county, 
adjoining to the foregoing. Population 488. 
TILSDOWN, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Dursley, Gloucestershire. 
TILSHEAD, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 4 miles 
south-south-east of East Lavington. 
TILSIT, a considerable town of Prussian Lithuania; 56 
miles east-north-east of Konigsberg. It contains 9000 inha¬ 
bitants, and stands on the banks of two rivers, the Tilse, a 
small stream separating the town from the castle, and the 
Niemen, a great river which flows past the town by the 
north, and over which it has a bridge of boats. The inha¬ 
bitants are partly Catholics, but more Protestants. Its chief 
title to historical notice is from the treaty of peace concluded 
here on the 1st of July, 1807, between France on the one 
hand and Prussia on the other; 50 miles south-south-east of 
Memel. Lat. 55. 4. 30. N. long. 21. 56.15. E. 
TILSOP, a village of England, in Salop; 3 miles from 
Cleobury Mortimer. 
TILSTOCK, a hamlet of England, in Salop; 3 miles 
south of Whitchurch. 
TILSTON, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 12| miles 
south-south-east of Chester. 
TILSTON FERNHALL, a hamlet of England, in Che¬ 
shire; 2j miles south-east of Tarporley. 
TILS WORTH, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 
3 miles north-west-bv-west of Dunstable. 
TILT HAMMER, is a large and heavy hammer, adapted 
to be put in rapid motion by the power of a water-wheel or 
steam-engine. 
TILT, a small rapid stream of Scotland, in Perthshire, 
which rises on the borders of Marr, and falls into the Garry 
near Blaircastle. It forms several romantic falls, of which 
that named “ the York cascade,’’ particularly attracts atten¬ 
tion. 
TILT, s. [tylb, Saxon ; tiald, Icel., tentorium tegumen- 
tum navis; tialllda, tentorium figere, aulreum exstruere. Se- 
renius.] A tent; any support of covering overhead. 
The roof of linnen. 
Intended for a shelter ! 
But the rain made an ass 
Of tilt and canvas. 
And the snow, which you know is a melter. - Denham. 
The cover of a boat.—It is a small vessel, like in propor¬ 
tion to a Gravesend tilt boat. Sandys. —A military game 
at which the combatants run against each other with lances 
on horseback. 
His study is his tilt- yard, and his loves 
Are brazen images of canonized saints. Shakspeare. 
A thrust.— His majesty seldom dismissed the foreigner, till 
he had entertained him with the slaughter of two or three of 
his liege subjects, whom he very dexterously put to death 
with the tilt of his lance. Addison. —Inclination forward : 
as, the vessel is a tilt, when it is inclined that the liquor 
may run out. [from i Villen, Dutch. See the verb.] 
To TILT, v. a. To cover like a tilt of a boat. To point 
as in tilts. 
Ajax interpos'd 
His seven-fold shield, and screen’d Laertes’ son, 
When the insulting Trojans urg’d him sore 
With tilted spears. Philips. 
\tillen, Dutch.] To turn up so as to run out: as, the 
barrel is tilted; that is, leaned forward. 
To TILT, v. n. To run in tilts or tournaments. 
To describe races and games, 
Or tilting furniture, emblazon’d shields. Milton. 
To fight with rapiers. 
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