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Spenser paid £5.15s.10d. to the crown for rent of Kilcolman. (Hadfield, 290)

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’s first pension payment is collected, indicating that Spenser had probably returned to Ireland by this point. (Hadfield, 265)

October 26: Spenser receives grant for Kilcolman. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson 128)

Lord Roche writes a letter to Walsingham expressing his complaints against Spenser, which include accusations that Spenser had made corrupt bargains to obtain Kilcolman and had threatened Lord Roche’s tenants. Lord Roche felt he had been cheated out…

Kilcolman estate passed from Reade to Spenser. (Judson 129)

Spenser answers a questionnaire sent out by the English government in which he reports that six English families are on Kilcolman estate and that others have promised to come over. (Judson 129)

One of the few surviving letters in Spenser’s hand from this time is from Thomas Norris to the Privy Council from Shandon Castle in Cork city. (Hadfield, 189)

"Spenser [is] officially established as Lodowick Bryskett's deputy as Clerk to the Council of Munster" (Hadfield, 192)

The Spanish Armada battles the English in the Channel and North Sea, with the Spanish suffering a horrendous defeat. Spenser “devotes eighteen stanzas of curious allegory” to this battle in the FQ, 5.8.28-45. (Judson, 123) Since the…