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“Spenser mentioned several times in a report on Munster undertakers sent from Dublin.” (CSPI167.44.III; Maley, 58)

Sometime in the second half of 1592 or 1593, Spenser probably met his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle. (Hadfield, 290)

Sometime between 1592-1595, according to archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer, Kilcolman estate took on an architectural transformation. (Hadfield, 291)

Lord Grey dies, possibly prompting Spenser’s defense of him in Book V of the FQ. (Maley, 60)

At some point in this year, Spenser passes his office of deputy clerk of the Munster Council on to Nicholas Curtis. (Hadfield, 291)

“Lord Roche is decreed possession of disputed lands.” (Maley, 61)

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

William Ponsonby enters “Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser” into the Stationer’s Register. (Judson, 166) “It is possible that theFQIV-VI came over in the same ship as Amorettiand…

“FQbooks IV-VI entered in the Stationers’ Register.” (Maley, 67; Hadfield, 326)

Spenser thought to have completed the bulk of A View. (Maley, 67)