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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[March 1 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[March 1]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Letter endorsed by Spenser, from Dublin. This letter demonstrates the military and logistical links between events in Ireland and the Netherlands, and also an attempt to resolve the consequences of the discharge of soldiers earlier that year. It also provides an example of Grey attempting to smooth his way with the Privy Council and the Queen by working through his chief sympathetic contact at court, Sir Francis Walsingham. (<em>CSPI</em>&nbsp;81.1; Maley, 17) (<em>TNA: PRO SP</em>&nbsp;63/90/1; Burlinson and Zurcher, 169)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[March 22 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[March 22]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser appointed Registrar/Clerk of the Faculties in the Court of Chancery, an office he holds for seven years. (Maley, 18) Spenser&rsquo;s acquisition of this position &ldquo;meant putting down into the soil of Ireland a first small root.&rdquo; (Judson, 96) Hadfield believes that Spenser disliked his superior in this position, Adam Loftus, and satirized him in <em>Mother Hubberds Tale</em>. Hadfield also comments that "this experience [as registrar] contributed to Spenser's comments of Brehon Law in <em>A View</em>": "theare are more attainted Landes conceled from her maiestie then shee now hathe possessions in all Irelande." Hadfield goes on to say that "the Chancery court's guiding principle, equity, its importance in defining sovereignty as well as its potential abuse, is a key concept in Spenser's later work, especially the second part of [<em>FQ</em>], suggesting that his experience in the Dublin courts had a profound effect on his conception of the law and his literary imagination." (174-77) (Burlinson and Zurcher, 225)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[April 26 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[April 26]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Letter in hand of Spenser, from Dublin. This letter shows Grey arguing against the general pardon that Elizabeth is about to issue for all but the most prominent rebels, forcing Grey into a disadvantageous position. (<em>CSPI</em>&nbsp;82.54; Maley, 21) (<em>TNA: PRO SP</em>&nbsp;63/82/54; Burlinson and Zurcher, 63) Spenser defended Grey&rsquo;s argument against this pardon on p. 137 of <em>A View</em>. (Judson, 97)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[May 6 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[May 6]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser appears &ldquo;in propria persona&rdquo; (in person) in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin (<em>Memoranda Roll</em>, 21st-24th Eliz., membrane 108; Maley, 21)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[June 9 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[June 9]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Letter addressed by Spenser, from Wexford. Spenser&rsquo;s presence with Grey on a journey to Wexford may be tied to Spenser&rsquo;s acquisition of the twenty-one-year lease of the house of friars, manor, lands, and a weir in Enniscorthy, Co. Wicklow. (<em>CSPI</em>&nbsp;83.43; Maley, 22) (<em>TNA: PRO SP</em>&nbsp;63/83/43; Burlinson and Zurcher, 72)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[July 15 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[July 15]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser secures lease under commission of the Castle and Manor of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. (Maley, 23) ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Late July-Early August 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Late July-Early August]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser accompanies Grey on his northern sojourn. (Maley, 23) Judson believes that Spenser&rsquo;s excursion with Grey influenced his description of eastern Ulster which appears in the opening of <em>A View</em>. (100)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[August 2 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[August 2]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser and Lodowick Bryskett with Grey during negotiations with lord Turlogh Lynagh O’Neill at the Blackwater in Ulster. (Maley, 23) ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[August c. 15 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[August c. 15]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser accompanies Grey on an expedition against James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglas and the Wicklow lord Feagh McHugh O’Byrne. (Maley, 24)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[December 6 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[December 6]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser receives the official lease for the Abbey and Manor of Enniscorthy, a former Franciscan monastery, along with a substantial collection of other properties. (Maley, 26; Hadfield, 183; Burlinson and Zurcher, 226) ]]></dcterms:description>
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