Spenser obtains official lease of the dissolved House of Friars minors, known as New Abbey, Co. Kildare, twenty-five miles from Dublin, one of the forfeited estates of Viscount Baltinglas, who had fled to Spain in 1581. The lease came “with an…
Grey defeated by O’Byrne at Glenmalure in the Wicklow Mountains; Spenser “refers directly to the defeat in his account of the marriage of the Thames and the Medway” in FQIV.xi.44, line 5—"balefull Oure, late staind with…
Maley notes that "between Autumn 1585 and spring of this year, Spenser must have attended the sessions of the presidency court of Munster at Limerick and Cork." (42)