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

Spenser spectates meetings of the Irish parliament, whose main item of business was “passing a bill of attainder against the earl of Desmond and other rebels” which “invalidated all transfers made for twelve years prior to the…

Opening of Irish parliament—Spenser almost certainly in attendance. (Maley, 42)

"Kilcolman 'taken' by Andrew Reade, possibly acting on behalf of Spenser, who in May seems to claim the estate." (Maley, 42)

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)

“Scheme for Munster plantation drawn up.” (Maley, 41) Spenser was likely with Norris while Munster’s lands were surveyed, not knowing what would eventually be his. (Judson, 118) Approximately half a million acres would be attained and redistributed…

Spenser is back in Dublin with Norris, where he copies out letters to the Privy Council detailing the devastation that had been visited upon Ulster. (Hadfield, 188; Maley, 40)

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)

From Dublin Castle, Lord Deputy Perrot writes to the Privy Council, listing castles to be fortified, including Kilcolman. (Maley, 40)