Before they met again, an event took place which caused great sorrow at the palace, and through all the ranks of the Low Church party.

Tillotson was taken suddenly ill while attending public worship in the chapel of Whitehall.

Prompt remedies might perhaps have saved him; but he would not interrupt the prayers; and, before the service was over, his malady was beyond the reach of medicine.

He was almost speechless; but his friends long remembered with pleasure a few broken ejaculations which showed that he enjoyed peace of mind to the last.

He was buried in the church of Saint Lawrence Jewry, near Guildhall.