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Spenser returns to Dublin. (Maley, 40)

Spenser “probably” with Norris, Ormond and the earl of Tyrone, when they overran Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim. (Maley, 40)

Spenser leaves Dublin for north Ulster. (Maley, 40)

"Spenser probably accompanies Norris and new Lord Deputy Perrot on tour of inspection through Connaught and Munster." (Maley, 39)

"Spenser along with twenty-five others called upon to act as commissioner for musters in Co. Kildare." (Maley, 39)

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 appointed commissioner for musters in Co. Kildare for two years (Fiants, Eliz. no. 4150)." (Maley, 37; Burlinson and Zurcher, 227) Hadfield notes that this appointment was part of plans for strengthening the army in the wake of the Desmond…

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

Spenser leases New Abbey, County Kildare.

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…