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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 7-8 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 7-8]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser with Grey when Lord Deputy attacks The Golden Fort at Smerwick. (Maley, 14) ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 8 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 8]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Guiseppe and Petruccio Barducci, author of a subsequent account of the massacre, go this evening to see Grey. Spenser and Captain Edward Denny are mentioned by Barduci as benefiting from the colonel as hostage. Barducci claims that Spenser and others profited from the massacre through ransoms for hostages.&quot; (Maley, 14) ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 9 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 9]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fort surrenders and 600 captives executed. Hadfield notes that Spenser defends Grey in both the <em>FQ</em>&nbsp;and <em>A View&nbsp;</em>but does not defend Grey&rsquo;s actions at Smerwick, an indication of how controversial the killing of captives was deemed even fifteen years later. (168) Judson speculates that Spenser refers to this episode in &ldquo;the climax of the Fifth Book of&rdquo; the <em>FQ</em>. (92)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 28 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 28]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser in Smerwick (<em>BM Add.&nbsp;</em>Ms 33924, f8.; Maley, 15)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[November 30 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[November 30]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser and Grey arrive in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (<em>CSPI</em>&nbsp;76.68; Maley, 15)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[December 23 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[December 23]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser probably present when Chancellor Gerrard, at a meeting of Grey&rsquo;s council, accuses the Earl of Kildare and his son-in-law Christopher Nugent, fifth Baron Devlin, of treason in Dublin (<em>CSPI</em> 79.26; Maley, 16; Hadfield, 173 ; Judson 94)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[January ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser would have accompanied Grey on most, if not all, of his military expeditions, such as the one into the midland counties of Leix and Offaly in this month. (Hadfield, 173)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January-February 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[January-February]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Grey and Spenser are joined by Lodowick Bryskett, clerk of the council at Dublin. Spenser and Bryskett became friends and “later played a part…in the writings of the other.” (Judson, 94-95)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[February 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[February ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser would have traveled through or around the Bog of Allen, the largest in Ireland and a noted problem for soldiers; the Bog dominates the Irish midlands to the west of Dublin. Spenser compares the forces besieging the Castle of Alma to insects that torment travelers on the Bog in the <em>FQ</em>&nbsp;II.ix.16. (Judson, 95)]]></dcterms:description>
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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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