[Footnote 4: [Sir Harris Nicolas says: "The allusion is to a work which had
appeared three years before: _The English Gusman; or, the History of that
unparalleled Thief, James Hind_, written by G. F. [George Fidge] 4to.,
London, 1652. Hind appears to have been the greatest thief of his age; the
son of a saddler at Chipping Norton, and apprenticed to a butcher. In the
rebellion he attached himself to the royal cause, and was actively engaged
in the battles of Worcester and Warrington. In 1651, he was arrested by
order of parliament, under the name of Brown, 'at one Denzy's, a barber
over against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street;' which circumstance may
have introduced him to Walton's notice."--ED.]]
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_Radish Feast._--I copied the following from the north door of St. Ebbe's
Church, Oxford. Can any of your correspondents explain the origin and
meaning of this feast?
"_St. Ebbe's Parish._
"The annual meeting for the election of Church-wardens for this Parish
will be held in the vestry of the Parish Church on Easter Tuesday, at 4
o'clock in the afternoon.
"WM. BRUNNER, }
WM. FISHER, } Churchwardens.
"Dated 10 April, 1852.
"The Radish Feast will be at the Bull Inn, New Street, immediately
after the Vestry."