Maley notes that "between Autumn 1585 and spring of this year, Spenser must have attended the sessions of the presidency court of Munster at Limerick and Cork." (42)
“Scheme for Munster plantation drawn up.” (Maley, 41) Spenser was likely with Norris while Munster’s lands were surveyed, not knowing what would eventually be his. (Judson, 118) Approximately half a million acres would be attained and redistributed…
Spenser probably present when Chancellor Gerrard, at a meeting of Grey’s council, accuses the Earl of Kildare and his son-in-law Christopher Nugent, fifth Baron Devlin, of treason in Dublin (CSPI 79.26; Maley, 16; Hadfield, 173 ; Judson 94)
Spenser in England at Whitehall, where he delivers Norris’s letters detailing the state of affairs in Ireland. (Judson, 201) Hadfield says Spenser “may well have attended the court in session at Whitehall…but he probably completed his business before…
Spenser writes in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe“from my house of Kilcolman.” Some scholars believe this statement implies that he was residing in a mansion house of his own building rather than Kilcolman castle itself. (Judson 130)
Spenser is paid £8 for delivering Norris’s letters, which indicates that “Ben Jonson’s claim that Spenser died ‘for lack of bread’ is unfounded.” (PROE. 351/543, f. 40r; Maley, 76; Hadfield, 386, 391)
