November 9 1580
subject: November 9
description: Fort surrenders and 600 captives executed. Hadfield notes that Spenser defends Grey in both the FQ and A View but does not defend Grey’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 “the climax of the Fifth Book of” the FQ. (92)