A fiant was an instruction, written on behalf of the monarch, ordering officials in Ireland to take certain actions. The original Fiants were mostly written in Latin. The text provided here is an English-language calendar, or summary, of one such fiant: Lease, under commission 13 October, vii., to Thomas Rogers and Alson Dallamare, his wife; of the site of the priory of nuns of Termonfeighen, co Louth, with the appurtenances in Termonfeighen, the lands...