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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)