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<dc:description>Spenser appointed Registrar/Clerk of the Faculties in the Court of Chancery, an office he holds for seven years. (Maley, 18) Spenser&amp;rsquo;s acquisition of this position &amp;ldquo;meant putting down into the soil of Ireland a first small root.&amp;rdquo; (Judson, 96) Hadfield believes that Spenser disliked his superior in this position, Adam Loftus, and satirized him in &lt;em&gt;Mother Hubberds Tale&lt;/em&gt;. Hadfield also comments that &quot;this experience [as registrar] contributed to Spenser&#039;s comments of Brehon Law in &lt;em&gt;A View&lt;/em&gt;&quot;: &quot;theare are more attainted Landes conceled from her maiestie then shee now hathe possessions in all Irelande.&quot; Hadfield goes on to say that &quot;the Chancery court&#039;s guiding principle, equity, its importance in defining sovereignty as well as its potential abuse, is a key concept in Spenser&#039;s later work, especially the second part of [&lt;em&gt;FQ&lt;/em&gt;], suggesting that his experience in the Dublin courts had a profound effect on his conception of the law and his literary imagination.&quot; (174-77) (Burlinson and Zurcher, 225)</dc:description>
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