Lord Grey receives the sword of state and takes the oath of office. Spenser likely recalls this ceremony in the FQ when Artegall receives Chrysaor, "the sword of adamant and gold whose terrible strokes nothing on earth could resist." (Judson, 89)
"Spenser probably attended sessions of [the] presidency court of Munster which met in latter half of this month at Dungarvon and the first half of October at Lismore and Youghal to allot immense seignories to Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir Walter…
Lodowick Bryskett records, in A Discourse of Ciuill Life, that Spenser was present at a gathering of friends at Bryskett’s cottage outside Dublin. Spenser allegedly asked those present—including Sir Robert Dillon, Warham St. Leger, Thomas…
Spenser lives in Co. Cork. "From now until he leaves Ireland with Raleigh in 1589, Spenser is intimately involved with the complex business of the Munster plantation." (Maley, 43).
