Spenser dies in London. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson, 202) “Ben Jonson told Drummond ‘that the Irish having robbed Spenser’s good and burnt his house and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped, and after[wards] he died for lack of…
Spenser would have accompanied Grey on most, if not all, of his military expeditions, such as the one into the midland counties of Leix and Offaly in this month. (Hadfield, 173)
Spenser is buried in Westminster Abbey, with an inscription reading; “Here lyes, expecting the second comminge of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs noe other witnesse than…
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)
Grey to Walsingham correspondence tells us that Grey "granted 'the lease of a house in Dublin belonging to Baltinglass for six years to come unto Edmund Spenser.'" (Hadfield, 182)
Grey and Spenser are joined by Lodowick Bryskett, clerk of the council at Dublin. Spenser and Bryskett became friends and “later played a part…in the writings of the other.” (Judson, 94-95)
Spenser in Ireland, possibly as a bearer of letters from the Earl of Leicester to Sir Henry Sidney and Sir William Drury, where he witnesses the execution of Murrogh O’Brien at Limerick. (recorded in View; Maley, 6)
