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- He ordained that ten choice persons should constantly attend him and his successors - Monarchs of Ireland, and never to be absent from him,
- 1. A nobleman to be his companion;
- 2. A judge to deliver and explain the laws of the country in the King's presence upon all occasions;
- 3. An antiquary or historiographer to declare and preserve the genealogies, acts, and occurrences of the nobility and gentry from time to time as occasion required;
- 4. A Druid or Magician to offer sacrifice, and presage good or bad omens, as his learning, skill, or knowledge would enable him;
- 5. A poet to praise or dispraise every one according to his good or bad actions;
- 6. A physician to administer physic to the king and queen, and to the rest of the (royal) family;
- 7. A musician to compose music, and sing pleasant sonnets in the King's presence when there-unto disposed;
- 8, 9, and 10, three Stewards to govern the King's House in all things appertaining thereunto.
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- Of the six sons of Cormac Mac Art, no issue is recorded from any [of them], but from Cairbre-Lifeachar; he had also ten daughters, but there is no account of any of them only two - namely, Grace (or Grania), and Ailbh [alve], who were both succe ssively the wives of the great champion and general of the Irish Militia, Fionn, the son of Cubhall [Coole].
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190 - 266 (76 years)
(Age 45 years)