A Viewentered in the Stationers’ Register, and the Warden of the Company left a note explaining that the contents of the manuscript would need approval from an authority before publication due to its sensitive information about Ireland and…
Spenser granted permission to postpone term arrearages of rent due on Buttevant Abbey, a property he had obtained for his son, Peregrine. (Judson, 195; Hadfield, 363-64)
“Estimates indicate that by 1598 there were only 3,000 English settlers instead of the 8,000 planned, and that the English lived as isolated farmers in an overwhelmingly hostile environment, ‘vulnerable to an uprising of the native population.’”…
Burgh, the Lord Deputy, dies of typhus and a few weeks later Sir John Norris (President of Munster) dies and is replaced in the presidency by his brother and Spenser’s neighbor, Thomas. “These events left English rule in a vacuum, placing ‘civil and…
Since very little records exist detailing Spenser’s activities in this year, most speculate that Spenser resided quietly at Kilcolman, likely working on his writing and increasing his holding of land while remaining aware of the turmoil that…
