Note 245 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Rushworth, iv. 463.
Cutting the hair short was a Puritan reaction, occasioned by the opposite Cavalier fashion of wearing locks profusely long. It is worth notice, that the nickname given to Elisha by the boys at the town gate, as they watched the prophet passing by, was just the same as that given to the Parliamentarians. "Baldhead," is really "roundhead," in allusion to shortness of hair at the back of the head.—Ewald, iii. 512.—Smith's Dict. of the Bible, i. 537.