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Queen recalls Grey from Ireland. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 227)

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

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

Maley notes that by the end of month "famine and plague had wiped out 90 percent of the male population at Cork." (34)

Sir Warham Sentleger informs Burghley that there are some sixty to seventy deaths every day due to plague and famine in Cork, "which is but one street not half a quarter of a mile in length." (CSPI91.41) (Maley, 32). Compare with descriptions of…

Spenser witnesses the execution of Nicholas Nugent. (Maley, 32)

Spenser present at trial of Chief Justice Nicholas Nugent at Trim, charged with complicity in the revolt of his uncle, William Nugent. (Maley, 32; see also Burlinson and Zurcher, 226)

Lodowick Bryskett records, in A Discourse of Ciuill Life, that Spenser was present at a gathering of friends at Bryskett’s cottage outside Dublin. Spenser allegedly asked those present—including Sir Robert Dillon, Warham St. Leger, Thomas…

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)

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)