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Glass, Perfped'ivt. Rcc rnRspEcnvE'. 



Glass, Looking. S^o LooKiM«-G/rt/f, Mirbok. and 

 Foliating. 



Glass, Burning. See BrnxTNO-GA;/}. 



Glass, Wcalkr. Sec Weatiier-G/w/J. 



Glass, Cupping. See Cuitini^G/^t/j-. 



Glass, IVwdoiu. See Window and GLAss,/K/>r(T. 



Glass, y^.vw p/"a. See Ams. 



Glass, Pole of a. See Polk. 



Glass, Hour. See Hovn-GZ/i/J-. 



Glasf, Tin. Sec Bijmvth. 



Glass, Watch. See Watch. 



GLASS-W'or/. See Kali. 



GLASS-Z^f^'ort, Berry-Benr;ngy in Botany. See AxABASIS. 



GhX^^-JVort, Jointed. See Salk OUMA and Kklp. 



GLASSHATTEN, or Gla-ittex, in Geography, a 

 .town of Hungary, celebrated for its hot-baths, and having 

 Hear it fome rich j;old mines ; 7 miles from Sclienniitz. 



GLASS-HOUSE Bav, a bay on the E. coail of New 

 Ho'Iand, betweecn cape Morelon, and the Glafs-honfes, 

 which are three hills, fo called by captain Cook in 1770, 

 fitaat.-d in S. lat. 26"' 28'. 



GLASSHUTTEN, a town of Saxony, near which is a 

 fjlvermine ; 8 miles S. of Drefden. 



GLASS lUS, Solomox, in Biogmphy, was born in the 

 year 1593, and it is fuppofed he was educated at Jena, 

 where he was admitted to the degree of doctor of divinity, 

 and for fome time filled the theological chair with diilin- 

 guifliod reputation. He was appointed fuperintendant of 

 the churches and Ichools in the diiciiy of Saxc-Gotha, and 

 exercifed the duties of his fiinftion with prudence, equity, 

 ,and impartiality. He died at Gotha in 1656, and left be- 

 hind him, as a memorial of his fame and learning, a work 

 publidied in quarto in 1623, entitled " Philologia Sacra," 

 which is pronounced by Moiheim an ineftimable and immor- 

 tal work, than which none can be more ufeful for the inter- 

 .pretution of Scripture, as it throws much light upon the 

 lang«bge and phrafcology of the mfpired writers. He was 

 autl.or, likewife, of " Onomatologia MefTi^; Prophetica ;" 

 " CKriilolcgia Mofaica et Davidica ;" " Exegefis Evange- 

 liorum et EpiiV>inrnm," and fome other pieces. Moreri. 



GLASSNEVIN, in Geogaphy, a village near Dublin, in 

 Ireland, remarkable for the very extenfive and valuable 

 ■botanical garden belonging to the Dublin fociety. See 

 Dublin Society. 



GLASSY Hf.MouR. See Eye and Vitreous, 



GLASTONlillRV, in Geography, a market town in 

 the hundred of Glafton, and county of Somerfet, Enghmd, 

 is fituated on the great road from Wells to Exeter. The 

 fcite occupied by it was orignially called Ynyfwytryn, or 

 the Glafs Ifland, and in Latin Avalonia. 



A town is faid to have been built here, and largely en- 

 dowed by king Ina about the year 708 : in the next cen.- 

 tury it was laid wafte by the Danes, and rebuilt by king 

 Edmund, who granted it many additional privileges. In 

 1 1 84 it was de'lroyed by tire, and was again rpllored by 

 the muniiiccnce of Henry H. The chief celtbrliy attach. 

 ed to the town v/as derived from its abbey ; \\lii!.-!i, during 

 fix centuries, fiirpalfed iu authority and revenues every 

 Other in Engla-.id, excepting th.it of Wellmiiiller. The 

 abbots enjoyeji a ftatc of regal fplendour, with an income 

 of nearly 40,000/ per annum, had llie tide of loiifjs, and 

 fat with the barons in parliament. The abbey and its 

 pffices occupied an area of lai-.d of nearly fixty aerc.i within 

 the walls, 



Tbe iall abbot, Richard Whiting, ^yho was the H.^tieth 



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in fucccnion, refufmg to furrender his abbey to king Henry 

 VHL wa?, with two of his monks, drawn on a hurdle to 

 the Torr, near the town, and there hanged : the abbot's 

 head was fet on the gate of the abbey, and his quarters 

 were fent to Bath, Wells, Bridgewater, and IlehelKr. 



It being traditionally recorded, that this was the burial 

 place of king Arthur, Henry II. ordered a fearch to be 

 made, when a leaden crofs was difcovered with a Latin in- 

 fcription in rude charadlers, thus tranflated ; " Here lies 

 the famous king Artiiur, buried in the ifle of Avalon." 

 Beneath was found a coffin hollowed out of the folid rock, 

 wherein were the bones of a human body, fuppofed to be 

 thofe of Arthur ; which were then depofited in the church 

 under a monument. Scarcely any veftige remains of thefe 

 extenfive buildings, except fome ruins of the church, part 

 of a chapel dedicated to Jofeph of Arimathea, and tha 

 abbot's kitchen, which feems to be of a more recent ftruc- 

 ture than tlie other offices. 



Among the religious relics with which the town and its 

 environs abound, the moft confpicuous is the Torr, or 

 St. Michael's Tower (on which abbot Whiting was ex- 

 ecuted,) Handing on an eminence eall of the town, vhere . 

 was formerly a fmall oratory, dedicated to St. Michael the 

 archangel. 



The town of Glaftonbury confifts of two principal ftreets, 

 and is divided into two parifhea, St. John's and St. Bene- 

 did's. It was formerly a parliamentary borough, but was 

 disfranchifed on the confifcation of the abbey in 1539. A 

 charter of incorporation vvas granted by queen Anne, by 

 which the civil government was veiled in a mayor, a jullice, 

 eight aldermen, and fixteen burgefle;). The principal build- 

 ings are the two parilh churches, two raecting-houfes, two 

 alms-houfes, and a free fchool. The George, a refpectable 

 inn, was anciently an hofpital for the accommodation of pil- 

 grims refortinw to the (lirine of St. Jofeph. In the centre of 

 the town was formerly a large Hone crofs, originally appra- 

 priated to ihelter pcrfons who attended the market. It 

 was taken down about five years ago : but a plate and 

 defcription are prefervcd in the firft vohime of the Architec- 

 tural Antiquities of Great Britain. Glaltonbury is 130 

 miles dillant from London ; has a market on Tuefdays, and 

 four annual fairs : the population return, in i8oi,waS4io 

 houfes, and 2035 inhabitants, of whom only 104 were em. 

 ployed in trade, which is chiefly that of manufafturing 

 worlled ilockings, 



South-^^■eft of the town is Wearyall hill, fo called from a 

 tradition that St. Jofeph and his companions, weary with 

 their journey, refted here ; and that St. Jofeph ihic.k hi3 

 hawthorn ftaff in the earth ; it took root, and conllautly 

 budded on Chriilmaa day. This famous thorn had two 

 trunks, of which one was deltroyed in queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, the other in the great rebellion ; but there are trees, 

 originally from the old Hock, Itill growing in the gardena 

 of GLiltonb\iry, and in various other parts of the king- 

 dom. Collinfon's Hill. Somerfetfltire, 3 vols. 4to. Maton'a 

 Weftern Counties, 2 vols, 8vo. 



Gi,.\sToxBuiiv, a townfliip of America, in the county 

 of Bennington, and ftate of Vermont ; Ijaring Only 48 in. 

 habitants. — Alfo, a handfomc little town in Hartford county, 

 Connefticut, fituated on the E. fide of Connecticut river, op. 

 pofite to Weathersfield ; containing 271 8 inhabitants. 



Glastomiuhv Thorn, in Botany. See Me-SI'ILL's, 



GLASTITM, from the German word GI.j/!, an old name 

 for Woad | (fee Isatis.) Hence feveral plants Ir.tve the 

 fpccifie name of gtajlifolia, on account of trie filnilitude of 

 their leaves to that hcrp. 



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