Grey and Spenser are joined by Lodowick Bryskett, clerk of the council at Dublin. Spenser and Bryskett became friends and “later played a part…in the writings of the other.” (Judson, 94-95)
Grey to Walsingham correspondence tells us that Grey "granted 'the lease of a house in Dublin belonging to Baltinglass for six years to come unto Edmund Spenser.'" (Hadfield, 182)
One of the few surviving letters in Spenser’s hand from this time is from Thomas Norris to the Privy Council from Shandon Castle in Cork city. (Hadfield, 189)
Spenser is buried in Westminster Abbey, with an inscription reading; “Here lyes, expecting the second comminge of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs noe other witnesse than…
Spenser would have accompanied Grey on most, if not all, of his military expeditions, such as the one into the midland counties of Leix and Offaly in this month. (Hadfield, 173)
Spenser dies in London. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson, 202) “Ben Jonson told Drummond ‘that the Irish having robbed Spenser’s good and burnt his house and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped, and after[wards] he died for lack of…
Spenser in Dublin when head of the rebel Sir John of Desmond, brother of the earl of Desmond, was delivered to Grey by Colonel Zouche; it was publicly displayed like that of Pollente in FQvii 19. (Maley, 29)
