Tillotson
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN ROBERT, Archbishop of Canterbury; born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, in October, 1630. He studied at Claire Hall, Cambridge, COUNT VON TILLY graduated B.A. in 1650, and became a He served under Alva during the revolt fellow the year after. In 1650 he became in the Netherlands, and afterward with tutor in the house of Edmund Prideaux, distinction in Hungary. Maximilian, attorney-general under the Protector. He Duke of Bavaria, appointed him comis said to have received his orders from mander of his forces, and in 1620, two Sydserf, Bishop of Galloway, and at any years after the beginning of the Thirty rate he was a preacher by 1661, when we Years' War, he utterly routed the Bofind him ranged among the Presbyterians hemians. During the next period of the at the Savoy Conference. He submitted contest he defeated in turn the two at once to the Act of Uniformity (1662); Protestant leaders. In 1622 he drove in 1663 became rector of Keddington, in Cyc. Vol. IX from the Palatinate Christian, Duke of Brunswick, and in August next year defeated him in a three days' engagement at Stadtlohn in Münsterchen. In 1625 he led the army of the Catholic League against Christian IV., of Denmark, k, who commanded the army of Lower Saxony, and defeated him in the battle of Lutter. Along with Wallenstein he forced the Danish king to agree to the disgraceful peace of Lübeck (1629). Next year Wallenstein was forced to resign the command of the imperial forces, and Tilly succeeded him. In May, 1631, Tilly sacked with ferocious cruelty the town of Magdeburg. As he himself complacently wrote, since the destruction of Troy and Jerusalem nothing had equalled it. Gustavus Adolphus was too late to save, but not to avenge Magdeburg. In September, 1631, he defeated Tilly at Breitenfeld, and again at Rain on the Lech. In both battles Tilly was wounded. He died in Ingolstadt, April ril 30, 1632, a few days after his second defeat. Tilly was an able general, but a man of narrow intellect. Not personally ambitious, nor caring for money, he was a fanatical Roman Catholic, ready to sacrifice everything for his Church.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The facts of John Tillotson's life stand as Collier's gave them in 1921: born at Sowerby in 1630, conforming to the Act of Uniformity in 1662, and — as the entry breaks off here — made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1691 after Sancroft refused the oath to William and Mary, dying in 1694. What has shifted is his reputation: his sermons, reprinted for a century after his death as the model of clear, plain English prose and imitated by writers as far apart as Dryden's admirers and the American colonial pulpit, are now read almost only by historians of latitudinarian theology. Note too that the page as scanned has run two separate articles together, so the Tillotson entry is interrupted mid-sentence by the biography of Count von Tilly, the Catholic League commander who sacked Magdeburg in 1631 and died of a wound from the battle on the Lech in April 1632.
Written for this edition, 2026.