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Letter addressed by Spenser, from Wexford. Spenser’s presence with Grey on a journey to Wexford may be tied to Spenser’s acquisition of the twenty-one-year lease of the house of friars, manor, lands, and a weir in Enniscorthy, Co.…

Ulster rebellion begins due to the expiration of “a series of truces between [earl of] Tyrone and the Lord Justices and Ormond.” (Judson, 196; Hadfield, 379)

Spenser with Grey at Philipstown, Co. Offaly. (Maley, 34)

"Spenser sells post of Clerk of Court of the Chancery for faculties to Arland Ussher, to whom the patent is passed." (Maley, 47)

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 with Grey at Monasterevin, Co. Kildare. (Maley, 34)

Spenser inherits from Lodowick Bryskett the post of Clerk of the Council of Munster. (Spenser Online)

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

Spenser marries Elizabeth Boyle. (Hadfield, 296) Marriage commemorated in his poem, “Epithalamion.”

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