579.
This law was passed in 1651, while Endicot was Governor.

Two years before, shortly after Governor Winthrop's death, Governor Endicot, with several other magistrates, issued a declaration against men wearing long hair, prefaced with the words, "Forasmuch as the wearing of long hair, after the manner of the ruffians and barbarous Indians, has begun to invade New England," and declaring "their dislike and detestation against wearing of such long hair as a thing uncivil and unmanly, whereby men do deform themselves, and offend sober and modest men, and do corrupt good manners," etc .-- _Ib._] [Footnote 102: Such was the opinion of the late Mr.John Forster, in his beautiful Life of Sir Henry Vane, in his Lives of the Puritan Statesmen of the Commonwealth.] [Footnote 103: Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers, etc.; Publication of the Prince Society.
_Note_ by Mr.Hutchinson: "Mr.Winthrop had obliged Mr.Vane to leave Massachusetts and return to England.

The letter was written when Mr.
Vane's interest in Parliament was very great.

It shows a good spirit, and the reproof is decent as well as seasonable."] [Footnote 104: History of New England, Vol.

I., p.