Date of Spenser’s sonnet to Harvey from Dublin, published in Harvey's Foure Letters(1592). (Maley, 43) Spenser is back in Dublin, either having returned by this date or having stayed in Dublin for much of the first half of the year, indicating…
"Sir Thomas Norris appointed one of the commissioners for the survey of attainted lands" including Kilcolman. Maley notes "it is likely that Spenser, when he took up residence, lived in a house on the estate, and not in the castle itself." (43)
"Spenser probably attended sessions of [the] presidency court of Munster which met in latter half of this month at Dungarvon and the first half of October at Lismore and Youghal to allot immense seignories to Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir Walter…
Spenser lives in Co. Cork. "From now until he leaves Ireland with Raleigh in 1589, Spenser is intimately involved with the complex business of the Munster plantation." (Maley, 43).
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 was “involved in the illegal seizure of a Spanish carvel full of Canary wines, which had been captured by the Tomas Bonaventure, a ship owned by the London merchant Thomas Cordell.” The carvel had been blown off course and put…
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)
Legal documents indicate that Kilcolman was assigned to Andrew Reade on this day. Hadfield suspects that Reade possibly "was involved in a speculative plan that was always designed to benefit Spenser." No records after this date indicate that Spenser…
