Spenser in Limerick for summer session of Munster Council. (Maley, 45)
Spenser spends the summer in Cork, Kilmallock, and Clonmel. (Maley, 45)
"Kilcolman confirmed as assigned by the Commissioners to" Reade. (Maley, 45)
Spenser in Limerick for autumn session of Munster Council. (Maley, 45)
Spenser is in Co. Cork and probably visiting Raleigh's house in Youghal often. (Maley, 46)
Spenser inherits from Lodowick Bryskett the post of Clerk of the Council of Munster. (Spenser Online)
"Spenser sells post of Clerk of Court of the Chancery for faculties to Arland Ussher, to whom the patent is passed." (Maley, 47)
The Spanish Armada battles the English in the Channel and North Sea, with the Spanish suffering a horrendous defeat. Spenser “devotes eighteen stanzas of curious allegory” to this battle in the FQ, 5.8.28-45. (Judson, 123) Since the Spanish Armada had crashed partly on Irish shores, "most of Spenser's official work would have been concerned with the panic induced first by the possibility of Spanish invasion and then by the wrecks of the ships off the Munster coast" (Hadfield, 193)
"Spenser [is] officially established as Lodowick Bryskett's deputy as Clerk to the Council of Munster" (Hadfield, 192)
One of the few surviving letters in Spenser’s hand from this time is from Thomas Norris to the Privy Council from Shandon Castle in Cork city. (Hadfield, 189)