Tillage (prop. JTTizy, aboddk, 1 Chron. xxvii, 26; Neh. X, 37, work; i. e. " service" or " bondage," as else- where rendered; so occasionally "in", to "till," " till- eth," "tiller," etc., lit. worker; but 1^3, nir, Prov. xiii, 23, means Jidloiu ground, as elsewhere rendered). See Aguicultuke.
Tillemont, Louis Sebastien Le Nain pe, a French divine and scholar, was born in Paris, Nov. 30, 11)37, and at the age of ten years entered the famous seminary of Port-Koyal. lie soon manifested great pro- ficiency in the study of history, and at the age of eigh- teen began to read the fathers, the lives of the apostles, and their successors in the primitive Church, and drew up for himself an accoimt of early ecclesiastical history, in the manner of Usher's A muds. When twenty-three, he entered the Episcopal seminary at Beauvais, where he remained three or four years, and then went to reside with Godefroi Ilermant, a canon of the Cathedral of Beauvais, with whom he remained five or six years. He then returned to Paris, and, after receiving the oth- er orders of the Cluirch, was ordained priest in 1G7G, and settled at Tillemont, whence he took his name. About this time he was employed, along with M. de Sacy, on a Life of St. Louis, and two years after trav- elled in Flanders and Holland. Keturning, he contin- ued his studies, and in 1690 began to publish his His- tory of the Emperors. To a comjdete knowledge of ecclesiastical history he joined an exemplary humility and regularity of conduct ; and, regardless of dignities, wished for nothing but retirement. The practicing of watchings anil austerities brought upon him a disease, of which he died Jan. 10, 1098. He published, Lives of the Emperors (1690-1701, 5 vols. Ato):—Memoires pour seri-ir a VHistoire Ecclesiastique des six premiers Siecles, etc. (1693, IG vols. 4to) : — and supplied ma- terials for several works published by others : Life of St. Louis, begun by De Sacy and finished and pidjlished by La Chaise ; Lives of St. A thanasius and St. Basil, by G. Hcrmant; Lives of Tertullian and Orvjen, by Forse, under the name of La Jlothe. He left in MS. "a Memoir concerning \Villi<nn de Saint-A mour, and the Dis- putes between the Ihiminicans and the University: — IJfe of Isabella, sister of St. Louis: — Remarks on the Bi-evia- ries of Mans and Paris : — A Legem] for the Breviary of Evreux: — and Bistoiy of the Sicilian Kings ofAnJou.
Tillemont, Pierre Le Nain de, brother of tin; preceding, was born in Paris, March 25, 1640. Having chosen the ecclesiastical profession, he entered at St.Vic- tor, Paris; but retired to La Trappe in 16G8, being en- amoured with the austerities of that order. He was for a long time subprior, and died there in 1713. His works are, Essaide rilisioire de I'Ordre de Citeuux (9 vols. 12mo): — Homilies sur .Jeremie (2 vols. 8vo), a French transla- tion of St. Dorotheus : — Relation de la Vie et de la Mori de Plusieurs Religieux de la Trappe (6 vols. 12mo), etc.
Tillet, Jean du, a French prelate, was born in Paris about the beginning of the 16th century; and by the influence of his brother, the earl of Brussiere (himself a learned historiographer), he became prothonotary of the cardinal of Lorraine, who rewarded him with the bish- opric of Saint-Brienc in 1553. The following year he exchanged this see for that of ^Nleaux. He died at Paris, Nov. 19, 1570. He was the author of many works on French Church history, for which see Hocfer, Nouv. Biog. (jencrale, s. v.
Tillinghast, Niciioi>as Power, an Episcopal cler- gyman, was born in Providence, \\. I., March 3, 1817. He was fitted for college chiefly by Sir. (afterwards Prof.) G. W. Keely, of Waterville College, and was grad- uated from Brown University in the class of 1837. On leaving college, he went to Society Hill, S. C, where he spent two years in superintending the education of a nephew (1837-39). The next three years (1839-42), he pursued his theological studies at the Theological Semi- nary at Alexandria, Va., and was ordained deacon and presbyter in the same year (1842) by bishop ]\Ieade, and became assistant minister of the Monumental Church, in Richmond, Va. He remained here but a short time, being called to the rectorship of the Episcopal Church at Society Hill, where he continued liis most accepta- ble services for two years. Failing health led him to resign, and he went abroad, spending eighteen months in Europe. After his return, he did not settle for two or three years, but supplied pulpits in AVashington, Marblehead (Mass.), and in Philadelphia, and in 1848 became rector of St. John's Church, in (ieorgetown, D. C. where he had a happy and useful ministry for nearly twenty years (1848-67). A severe injury which he sus- tained in Groton, Coim., which made necessary the am- putation of a limb, so atfected his health that he was unable again to settle as a minister, although he offi- ciated as a teinporary supplj^ as occasion offered. In the seclusion of his stud}' he spent much tiine engaged in congenial studies. He made a translation of a large part of Cicero's De Officiis, and also translated from the German some things in which he was interested. He died near Philadelphia, Aug. 7, 1869. (J. C. S.)