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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[April 14 1598]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[April 14]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<em>A View</em>&nbsp;entered in the Stationers&rsquo; Register, and the Warden of the Company left a note explaining that the contents of the manuscript would need approval from an authority before publication due to its sensitive information about Ireland and English military strategies. (Maley, 71; Hadfield, 364-65)]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/743">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[February 7 1598]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[February 7]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser granted permission to postpone term arrearages of rent due on Buttevant Abbey, a property he had obtained for his son, Peregrine. (Judson, 195; Hadfield, 363-64)]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/742">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[1598]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[1598]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[“Estimates indicate that by 1598 there were only 3,000 English settlers instead of the 8,000 planned, and that the English lived as isolated farmers in an overwhelmingly hostile environment, ‘vulnerable to an uprising of the native population.’” (Hadfield, 364)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[October 13 1597]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[October 13]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Burgh, the Lord Deputy, dies of typhus and a few weeks later Sir John Norris (President of Munster) dies and is replaced in the presidency by his brother and Spenser’s neighbor, Thomas. “These events left English rule in a vacuum, placing ‘civil and military authority in Ireland in the hands of a committee, with the inevitable consequences of indecisions and procrastination.’ For the rest of Spenser’s life there would be no chief governor in Ireland.” (Hadfield, 362) ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[March 5 1597]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[March 5]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser completes <em>A View</em>&nbsp;around this time. (Maley, 70)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[1597]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[1597]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Since very little records exist detailing Spenser&rsquo;s activities in this year, most speculate that Spenser resided quietly at Kilcolman, likely working on his writing and increasing his holding of land while remaining aware of the turmoil that was occurring in other provinces of Ireland. (Judson, 194) Spenser returns to Ireland from England at some point between Christmas 1596 and early 1597. (Hadfield, 361) Sometime in this year Spenser &ldquo;purchases lands of Renny in south Cork, for &pound;200, for his newborn son Peregrine, and acquires Buttevant Abbey.&rdquo; (Maley, 70) Hadfield mentions that some suspect Spenser lived for a time and wrote parts of the <em>FQ</em>&nbsp;at the property, Renny, acquired for Peregrine. Spenser&rsquo;s grandson, Jugolin, occupied the estate in 1668. Additionally, Buttevant Abbey sat near the rivers Awbeg and Bregog, which both played &ldquo;an important role in the mythological world of <em>Colin Clout</em>&nbsp;and &lsquo;Two Canto of Mutabilitie,&rsquo;&rdquo; works Spenser liked engaged in in 1597-98, &ldquo;further demonstrating what a significant role the landscape played in his imagination.&rdquo; In addition to Renny and Buttevant Abbey, Spenser likely acquired other properties for the sake of his children&rsquo;s inheritance. (362-63)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 8 1596]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 8]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser possibly &ldquo;attended wedding of Earl of Worcester&rsquo;s daughters, celebrated in&rdquo; his poem, <em>Prothalamion</em>. (Maley, 68; Hadfield, 349)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[September 1 1596]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[September 1]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Spenser&rsquo;s <em>Fowre Hymnes</em>&nbsp;dedicated from the court at Greenwich.&rdquo; (Maley, 67)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[June-July 1596]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[June-July]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser thought to have completed the bulk of <em>A View</em>. (Maley, 67)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January 20 1596]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[January 20]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&ldquo;<em>FQ</em>&nbsp;books IV-VI entered in the Stationers&rsquo; Register.&rdquo; (Maley, 67; Hadfield, 326)]]></dcterms:description>
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