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Spenser inherits from Lodowick Bryskett the post of Clerk of the Council of Munster. (Spenser Online)

Spenser with Grey at Monasterevin, Co. Kildare. (Maley, 34)

Sir John Perrot sworn in as the new lord deputy, Grey’s former position. Spenser distrusted this man and later wrote against him in A View, stating that Ireland was “more dangerously sick than ever before” because of Perrot’s…

"Spenser sells post of Clerk of Court of the Chancery for faculties to Arland Ussher, to whom the patent is passed." (Maley, 47)

Spenser with Grey at Philipstown, Co. Offaly. (Maley, 34)

Ulster rebellion begins due to the expiration of “a series of truces between [earl of] Tyrone and the Lord Justices and Ormond.” (Judson, 196; Hadfield, 379)

Letter addressed by Spenser, from Wexford. Spenser’s presence with Grey on a journey to Wexford may be tied to Spenser’s acquisition of the twenty-one-year lease of the house of friars, manor, lands, and a weir in Enniscorthy, Co.…

Spenser thought to have completed the bulk of A View. (Maley, 67)

Grey recalled, and Spenser discharged from secretaryship. (Hadfield, 183)

Spenser accompanies Grey on his northern sojourn. (Maley, 23) Judson believes that Spenser’s excursion with Grey influenced his description of eastern Ulster which appears in the opening of A View. (100)