"If it hadn't been for Cobb-bush Hill,
Thorpe Castle would have stood there still."
or the last line, according to another version,—
"There would have been a castle at Thorpe still."
Now it appears from Lipscomb's History of the county, that the castle was demolished by Fulke de Brent about 1215; how then can this tradition be explained?
Cobb-bush Hill, I am told, is more than half a mile from the village.
H. Thos. Wake.
Footnote 4:[(return)]
Pronounced Thrup.
Where was Edward II. killed?—Hume and Lingard state that this monarch was murdered at Berkeley Castle. Echard and Rapin are silent, both as to the event and as to the locality. But an earlier authority, viz. Martyn, in his Historie and Lives of Twentie Kings, 1615, says: