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Sometime in the second half of 1592 or 1593, Spenser probably met his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle. (Hadfield, 290)

“Spenser mentioned several times in a report on Munster undertakers sent from Dublin.” (CSPI167.44.III; Maley, 58)

“Spenser assignee[ ] of Enniscorthy,” Co. Wexford. (Maley, 58)

Spenser possibly in England and “suspected, with others, of not having well ‘performed the plot of the habitation’” (CSPI167.44.V; Maley, 58)

Spenser paid £5.15s.10d. to the crown for rent of Kilcolman. (Hadfield, 290)

Spenser writes in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe“from my house of Kilcolman.” Some scholars believe this statement implies that he was residing in a mansion house of his own building rather than Kilcolman castle itself. (Judson 130)

Spenser’s first pension payment is collected, indicating that Spenser had probably returned to Ireland by this point. (Hadfield, 265)

October 26: Spenser receives grant for Kilcolman. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson 128)

Lord Roche writes a letter to Walsingham expressing his complaints against Spenser, which include accusations that Spenser had made corrupt bargains to obtain Kilcolman and had threatened Lord Roche’s tenants. Lord Roche felt he had been cheated out…

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