The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27

The name is now most frequent in Worcestershire. Worcestershire and Cheshire.
 The suffix is diminutive. hence the word signifies the young bull" h earlier times it was a frequent sym onym for steer or OK.
 The word bull itself has not been found in Anglo-Saxon and appears first in the extant known literature in the Ormulum and in Leyamon, both dating about 1900 A. D. Bulluca, the diminu- tive. is actually found in Anglo-Saxon times and shows that its primitive was known. even if not found in the extant remains of the language. Its cognates are many and various, including the English ball and boil. Irish bolg, "a sack" Gallic bulga, "a leather sack" Latin follis, "a leathern bag, bellows" Greek phalles. Gothic balgs, pouch, etc." form an Indo- European bhel, ito swell" etc. Glass.
 The surname Glass had its origin in a Scotch nickname and signifies "the grey. the grey-haired." In some cases it may be a local name derived from the parish of this name in Aberdeenshire. or from that in Banffshire. There is also an island, a lake and a river of this name in Scot land.
 In any case the name has the same original meaning. It Is derived from the Gaelic glas. Old Irish glass. Welsh and Breton glas, meaning grey" also defined as blue" and green" The Irish names Glasdercus "grey-eyed'' and Glassicu greyhound, grey-chief- tain" are very old.
 Pliny tells us that the plant woad. used by the Celts irf tattooing them- selves, was called glastum in Gaul. It is said to be a sky-blue (caeruleum) or a green (vitreum) by ancient writers.
 The term was so frequently applied to rivers, etc, as a descriptive epithet that 1t took on the connotation of river. streamlet." etc.. quite early. In this acquired sense 1t is frequent in place names and surnames derived from them.
 The Anglo-Saxon glaes, old Saxon glas. gles. Old High German glas, Ger man and Dutch glas. English glass are either cognate with the foregoing Cell tic words or very early borrowing from that family. The Latin glaesum, resin" is on the testimony of Tacitus and Pliny borrowed from the Ger manic.
 Glass is also an old Marlborough name in Wiltshire. Here one Thomas Glass suffered loss of f711 in the great fire of 1653. Another branch of the family has long been established in Devonshire and now has it's home in the Exbourne district.
 Whether these represent medieval immigrants from Scotland or local out croppings of an ancient Brythonic stock of "greys," is a task for the genealogist and family historian rather than the etymologfst.
 Scott.
 The surname Scott is ethnic in origin and indicates the man from Scotland" As the tendency of the North Britons to "come south" is proverbial, there that this is the most frequent of geo. graphical surnames in British nomen- clature.
 Nearly sixty coats- of- arms have been assigned to those that bear the name. There are many of the name in Scotland also. due in part to an- cestors who gained the name abroad and returned with it, and in part to those who for various reasons may have assumed or been given the name.
 The name in early records is almost always le Scot. Now the form in dou- ble ct" prevails everywhere.
 The Duke of Buccleuch is the head of the surname in Scotland. His ped igree is traced back to Richard le Scot, of Murdieston. Lanark shire, one of the Scottish barons that took the oath of fealty to Edward of England in 1296. One of the early Dukes of Buccleuch sought for a Norman origin of his name and claimed to have found 1t fin the Old French Escot borrowed from the native Scot.
 It was not until the latter part of