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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 answers a questionnaire sent out by the English government in which he reports that six English families are on Kilcolman estate and that others have promised to come over. (Judson 129)

Kilcolman estate passed from Reade to Spenser. (Judson 129)

Lord Roche writes a letter to Walsingham expressing his complaints against Spenser, which include accusations that Spenser had made corrupt bargains to obtain Kilcolman and had threatened Lord Roche’s tenants. Lord Roche felt he had been cheated out…

October 26: Spenser receives grant for Kilcolman. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson 128)

Spenser’s first pension payment is collected, indicating that Spenser had probably returned to Ireland by this point. (Hadfield, 265)

Spenser writes in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe“from my house of Kilcolman.” Some scholars believe this statement implies that he was residing in a mansion house of his own building rather than Kilcolman castle itself. (Judson 130)

Spenser paid £5.15s.10d. to the crown for rent of Kilcolman. (Hadfield, 290)

Spenser possibly in England and “suspected, with others, of not having well ‘performed the plot of the habitation’” (CSPI167.44.V; Maley, 58)

“Spenser assignee[ ] of Enniscorthy,” Co. Wexford. (Maley, 58)