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William Ponsonby enters “Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser” into the Stationer’s Register. (Judson, 166) “It is possible that theFQIV-VI came over in the same ship as Amorettiand…

Spenser marries Elizabeth Boyle. (Hadfield, 296) Marriage commemorated in his poem, “Epithalamion.”

“Lord Roche is decreed possession of disputed lands.” (Maley, 61)

At some point in this year, Spenser passes his office of deputy clerk of the Munster Council on to Nicholas Curtis. (Hadfield, 291)

Lord Grey dies, possibly prompting Spenser’s defense of him in Book V of the FQ. (Maley, 60)

Sometime between 1592-1595, according to archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer, Kilcolman estate took on an architectural transformation. (Hadfield, 291)

Sometime in the second half of 1592 or 1593, Spenser probably met his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle. (Hadfield, 290)

“Spenser mentioned several times in a report on Munster undertakers sent from Dublin.” (CSPI167.44.III; Maley, 58)

“Spenser assignee[ ] of Enniscorthy,” Co. Wexford. (Maley, 58)

Spenser possibly in England and “suspected, with others, of not having well ‘performed the plot of the habitation’” (CSPI167.44.V; Maley, 58)