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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC |
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ROUNDHEAD , a term
great
hair closely cropped round the head, and there was thus an obvious contrast between them and the men of fashion with their long ringlets. " Roundhead " appears to have been first used as a term
hair of their heads very few of them longer than their ears, whereupon it came to pass that those who usually with their cries attended at Westminster were by a nickname called Roundheads." John Rushworth (Historical Collections) is more precise. According to him the word was first used on the 27th of December 1641 by a disbanded officer named David
drawn
throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops." Clarendon (History of the Rebellion, iv. 121) remarks on the matter: " and from those contestations the two terms of ` Roundhead ' and ` Cavalier ' grew to be received in discourse, . . . they who were looked upon as servants to the king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.' " Baxter
Roundhead was also used during the Civil War as the name of a weapon. This is described as having " an head about a quarter of a yard long , a staffe of two yards long put into their head, twelve iron pikes round about, and one in the end to stop with."End of Article: ROUNDHEAD If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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