[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.
[Directions], orders, instructions.
[Revellers], persons feasting, drinking, and making merry.
[Sack], to plunder and destroy.