Spenser spectates meetings of the Irish parliament, whose main item of business was “passing a bill of attainder against the earl of Desmond and other rebels” which “invalidated all transfers made for twelve years prior to the…
Spenser present at trial of Chief Justice Nicholas Nugent at Trim, charged with complicity in the revolt of his uncle, William Nugent. (Maley, 32; see also Burlinson and Zurcher, 226)
Grey and his entourage arrive in Dublin, "Spenser most likely accompanies him"; at Dublin Castle, Spenser probably “started his new life taking rooms in the castle.” (Hadfield, 156; Burlinson and Zurcher, 224)
Spenser obtains official lease of the dissolved House of Friars minors, known as New Abbey, Co. Kildare, twenty-five miles from Dublin, one of the forfeited estates of Viscount Baltinglas, who had fled to Spain in 1581. The lease came “with an…
Grey defeated by O’Byrne at Glenmalure in the Wicklow Mountains; Spenser “refers directly to the defeat in his account of the marriage of the Thames and the Medway” in FQIV.xi.44, line 5—"balefull Oure, late staind with…
