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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)

Maley notes that by the end of month "famine and plague had wiped out 90 percent of the male population at Cork." (34)

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

Spenser appears “in propria persona” (in person) in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin (Memoranda Roll, 21st-24th Eliz., membrane 108; Maley, 21)

"Irish parliament passes act nullifying all conveyances"; Spenser condemns these such conveyances in A View. (Maley, 42)

Hadfield notes that “we have no actual record of where [Spenser] was living [in the mid-1580s], but he probably stayed in Co. Cork in order to attend the Lord President when they were not on the road.” (189)

Spenser accompanies Norris and company of 100 men to Munster. (Maley, 40)

Spenser in Limerick for autumn session of Munster Council. (Maley, 45)

William Ponsonby enters “Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser” into the Stationer’s Register. (Judson, 166) “It is possible that theFQIV-VI came over in the same ship as Amorettiand…

Spenser in Smerwick (BM Add.Ms 33924, f8.; Maley, 15)