See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• GEORGE GLAS (1725-1765)
• GLAS, JOHN (1695-1773)

GLAS (1725-1765)  , Scottish See also:

• SEAMAN, OWEN (1861– )

seaman and See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant adventurer in See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, son of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• GLAS, GEORGE (1725-1765)
• GLAS, JOHN (1695-1773)

Glas the divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DUNDEE
• DUNDEE, JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT (c. 1649-1689)

Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon . He obtained command of a See also:

• SHIP

ship which traded between See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil, the N.W. coasts of Africa and the See also:

• CANARY
• CANARY (Serinus canarius)

Canary Islands . During his voyages he discovered on the Saharan seaboard a See also:

• RIVER

river navigable for some distance inland, and here he proposed to found a trading station . The exact spot is not known with certainty, but it is plausibly identified with Gueder, a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in about 29° 10' N., possibly the haven where the Spaniards had in the 15th and 16th centuries a fort called See also:

• SANTA

Santa Cruz de See also:

• MAR, EARLDOM OF
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 1ST OR 6TH EARL OF (d. 1572)
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL
• MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 6TH OR 11TH EARL OF (1675-1732)

Mar Pequena . Glas made an arrangement with the Lords of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

Trade whereby he was granted £15,000 if he obtained See also:

• FREE

free cession of the See also:

• PORT

port he had discovered to the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• CROWN

crown; the proposal was to be laid before See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament in the session of 1765 . Having chartered a See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, Glas, with his wife and daughter, sailed for Africa in 1764, reached his destination and made a treaty with the See also:

• MOORS (Lat. Mauri; Gr. Mavpot, dark men)
• MOORS, KABYLES, MZABITES

Moors of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district . He named his See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement Port Hillsborough, after See also:

• WILLS, WILLIAM GORMAN (1828-1891)

Wills See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill, See also:

• EARL

earl of Hillsborough (afterwards See also:

• MARQUIS

marquis of See also:

• DOWNSHIRE, WILLS HILL, 1ST MARQUESS OF (1718-1793)

Downshire), See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of Trade and Plantations, 1763-1765 . In See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1764 Glas and some companions, leaving his ship behind, went in the longboat to See also:

• LANZAROTE

Lanzarote, intending to buy a small barque suitable for the See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation of the river on which was his settlement . From Lanzarote he forwarded to See also:

• LONDON

London the treaty he had concluded for the acquisition of Port Hillsborough . A few days later he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to See also:

• TENERIFFE [Tenerife]

Teneriffe and imprisoned at Santa Cruz . In a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to the Lords of Trade from Teneriffe, dated the 15th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1764, Glas said be believed the See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason for his detention was the See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy of the Spaniards at the settlement at Port Hillsborough " because from thence in See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war the See also:

• ENGLISH

English might ruin their See also:

• FISHERY (LAW OF)

fishery and effectually stop the whole commerct of the Canary Islands." The Spaniards further looked upon the settlement as a step towards the See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of the islands . " They are therefore contriving how to make out a claim to the port and will forge old See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts to prove their assertion " (See also:

• CALENDAR

Calendar of See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

Home See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office Papers, 176o-1765) .

In See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1765 the ship's See also:

• COMPANY

company at Port Hillsborough was attacked by the natives and several members of it killed . The survivors, including Mrs and See also:

• MISS

Miss Glas, escaped to Teneriffe . In See also:

• OCTOBER

October following, through the representations of the British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, Glas was released from See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . With his wife and See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child he set See also:

• SAIL

sail for See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England on board the barque " Earl of See also:

• SANDWICH
• SANDWICH, EDWARD MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST EARL OF (1625–1672)
• SANDWICH, JOHN MONTAGU, 4TH EARL OF (1718–1792)

Sandwich." On the 30th of November See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish and Portuguese members of the See also:

• CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
• CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)

crew, who had learned that the ship contained much treasure, mutinied, killing the See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain and passengers . Glas was stabbed to See also:

• DEATH

death, and his wife and daughter thrown overboard . (The murderers were afterwards captured and hanged at See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin.) After the death of Glas the British government appears to have taken no steps to carry out his project . In 1764 Glas published in London The See also:

• HISTORY

History of the See also:

• DISCOVERY

Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, which he had translated from the MS. of an Andalusian See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk named Juan Abreu de Galindo, then recently discovered at See also:

• PALMA, JACOPO (c. 1480-1528)
• PALMA, or PALMA DE MALLORCA
• PALMA, or SAN MIGUEL DE LA PALMA

Palma . To this Glas added a description of the islands, a continuation of the history and an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners, customs, trade, &c., of the inhabitants, displaying considerable knowledge of the See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

archipelago .