Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract which the Welsh themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, as far as the river Conway.
[37] Stout Glo’ster stood aghast——
Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son-in-law to King Edward.
[38] To arms! cried Mortimer——
Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore.
They both were Lords Marchers, whose lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the King in this expedition.
[39] Shrieks of an agonizing King!
Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley-castle.
[40] She-wolf of France——
Isabel of France, Edward the Second’s adulterous Queen.