Some reports tell of him assisting the escape of King Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester.

After the war, he took up highway robbery against the Commonwealth forces with his exploits both real and embellished printed in numerous pamphlets that made him into a Royalist folk hero of the Robin Hood mould.

Hind also robbed John Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I.

However, Hind was charged with treason rather than highway robbery because of his expressed Royalist loyalty and was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1652 at Worcester.

[3] He was the subject of a biography The English Gusman by George Fidge (London 1652), and 16 pamphlets detailing his exploits.