Spenser accompanies Grey on his northern sojourn. (Maley, 23) Judson believes that Spenser’s excursion with Grey influenced his description of eastern Ulster which appears in the opening of A View. (100)
Letter addressed by Spenser, from Wexford. Spenser’s presence with Grey on a journey to Wexford may be tied to Spenser’s acquisition of the twenty-one-year lease of the house of friars, manor, lands, and a weir in Enniscorthy, Co.…
Letter in hand of Spenser, from Dublin. This letter shows Grey arguing against the general pardon that Elizabeth is about to issue for all but the most prominent rebels, forcing Grey into a disadvantageous position. (CSPI82.54; Maley, 21) (TNA: PRO…
Spenser appointed Registrar/Clerk of the Faculties in the Court of Chancery, an office he holds for seven years. (Maley, 18) Spenser’s acquisition of this position “meant putting down into the soil of Ireland a first small root.”…
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…
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…
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)
