Sir Warham Sentleger informs Burghley that there are some sixty to seventy deaths every day due to plague and famine in Cork, "which is but one street not half a quarter of a mile in length." (CSPI91.41) (Maley, 32). Compare with descriptions of…
Spenser present at trial of Chief Justice Nicholas Nugent at Trim, charged with complicity in the revolt of his uncle, William Nugent. (Maley, 32; see also Burlinson and Zurcher, 226)
Lodowick Bryskett records, in A Discourse of Ciuill Life, that Spenser was present at a gathering of friends at Bryskett’s cottage outside Dublin. Spenser allegedly asked those present—including Sir Robert Dillon, Warham St. Leger, Thomas…
Grey to Walsingham correspondence tells us that Grey "granted 'the lease of a house in Dublin belonging to Baltinglass for six years to come unto Edmund Spenser.'" (Hadfield, 182)
Spenser in Dublin when head of the rebel Sir John of Desmond, brother of the earl of Desmond, was delivered to Grey by Colonel Zouche; it was publicly displayed like that of Pollente in FQvii 19. (Maley, 29)
Spenser conveyed the Enniscorthy property to Richard Synnot. Judson speculates that Spenser may have used the profit from his lease of the Enniscorthy lands to invest in an Augustinian monastery at New Ross, Co. Wexford. (102)
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)
