[Intercession], pleading for.

[Unfettered of any], not under any other province.

[Redundance], more than enough, great plenty.

[Historians recording truth]: to record truth is the chief merit of a historian.

[Bulwark], a safeguard: "Ireland's bulwark," because Tara was in Meath.

[Sooth], truth.

[XXXIV.—Page 155].

[Directions], orders, instructions.

[Revellers], persons feasting, drinking, and making merry.

[Sack], to plunder and destroy.