Spenser receives the official lease for the Abbey and Manor of Enniscorthy, a former Franciscan monastery, along with a substantial collection of other properties. (Maley, 26; Hadfield, 183; Burlinson and Zurcher, 226)
December 8: Spenser becomes "delinquent in payment of first fruits, a sum required of the occupant of a benefice upon taking his charge, with respect to the prebendary of Effin, possibly a sinecure post (CSPI127.18)." (Maley, 44) Hadfield notes this…
Spenser conveyed the Enniscorthy property to Richard Synnot. Judson speculates that Spenser may have used the profit from his lease of the Enniscorthy lands to invest in an Augustinian monastery at New Ross, Co. Wexford. (102)
Spenser would have traveled through or around the Bog of Allen, the largest in Ireland and a noted problem for soldiers; the Bog dominates the Irish midlands to the west of Dublin. Spenser compares the forces besieging the Castle of Alma to insects…
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)
Mary Stuart beheaded; Spenser later writes in FQabout Queen Elizabeth’s reluctance to kill her cousin and the justice of Mary’s punishment. (Judson, 122)
Spenser in Dublin when head of the rebel Sir John of Desmond, brother of the earl of Desmond, was delivered to Grey by Colonel Zouche; it was publicly displayed like that of Pollente in FQvii 19. (Maley, 29)
