ROUNDHEAD  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied to the adherents of the See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary party in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England during the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

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

War . Some of the Puritans, but by no means, all, wore the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair closely cropped See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, and there was thus an obvious contrast between them and the men of See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion with their See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long ringlets . " Roundhead " appears to have been first used as a term of derision towards the end of 1641 when the debates in parlia-ment on the Bishops Exclusion See also:

• BILL

Bill were causing riots at See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster . One authority says of the See also:

• CROWD, CROUTH, CROWTH

crowd which gathered there: " They had the 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 See also:

• NICKNAME

nickname called Roundheads." 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:

• RUSHWORTH, JOHN (c. 1612-1690)

Rushworth (See also:

• HISTORICAL

Historical Collections) is more precise . According to him the word was first used on the 27th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1641 by a disbanded officer named See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David Hide, who during a See also:

• RIOT (0. Fr. riote, of uncertain etymology)

riot is reported to have See also:

• DRAWN

drawn his See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword and said he would " cut the See also:

• THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat of those round-headed See also:

• DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs that bawled against bishops." See also:

• CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF
• CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF (1609-1674)
• CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4TH EARL OF (in the Villiers line) (1800-r87o)
• CLARENDON, HENRY HYDE

Clarendon (See also:

• HISTORY

History of the See also:

• REBELLION

Rebellion, iv . 121) remarks on the See also:

• MATTER

matter: " and from those contestations the two terms of ` Roundhead ' and ` See also:

• CAVALIER
• CAVALIER, JEAN (1681-1740)

Cavalier ' See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew to be received in discourse, . . . they who were looked upon as servants to the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the See also:

• RABBLE

rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.' " See also:

• BAXTER, ANDREW (1686-1750)
• BAXTER, RICHARD (1615-1691)
• BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (1827-1875)
• BAXTER, WILLIAM (1650-1723)

Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of See also:

• STRAFFORD, EARLS OF
• STRAFFORD, THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL

Strafford; referring to See also:

• PYM, JOHN (1584-1643)

Pym, she asked who the roundheaded See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man was . The name remained in use until after the revolution of 1688 . Roundhead was also used during the Civil War as the name of a weapon .