a preacher in 1661. At the Restoration he went over to the established Church. In 1664 he married Elizabeth, dau. of Peter French, canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and niece of Oliver Cromwell. Tillotson employed his controversial weapons with some skill against Atheism and Popery. On the 5th Nov., 1678, he preached a sermon against Popery before the House of Commons, in which he maintained that it was their duty to make provision against the propagation of a religion more mischievious than irreligious itself; but in his sermon on Protestant religion in 1680, before the King, he propounded the proposition that Catholics could enjoy their own faith, but not openly draw men off from the profession of the established religion. He attended Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683. He enjoyed the friendship of Lady Russell, and through her obtained influence with Princess Anne, who followed his advice in settlement of the Crown on William of Orange. He possessed special confidence of William and Mary, and was made clerk of the Closet to the King, Mar. 27, 1689. Through his advice the King appointed ecclesiastical commission to reconcile dissenters. He was elected as Archbishop of Canterbury, which place he accepted in April, 1691. His attempt to reform certain abuses of the Church made some enemies, and the Jacobites took every advantage and persued him, but could neither provoke nor fright him in his duty. He was taken ill during service in church and died in London, Nov. 24, 1694.

The arms of Tilston or Tillotson are now, or lately were, on the walls of Wookliff Chapel. Viz: Azure a bend cotised between two garbs or crest; bear's head issuing out of a mural Crown.

Motto: Jactor non Mirgor.

These are the Arms of Tilston of Tilston in Cheshire, and were also confirmed by William Flower, Norroy, Aug. 28, 1580. 22 Eliz. to Ralph Tilson (or Tilston) of Huxley in Cheshire.

                                           See Guillim, page 125.