1. A deficiency partially remedied by the recent publication of Ciarán Brady, The Chief Governors: The rise andfall of reform government in Tudor Ireland 1536–1588 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
2. J. Small (ed.), The Image of Irelande, with A Discoverie of Woodkarne, by John Derricke (London, 1581; Edinburgh, 1883), Plate 12.
3. Simon Adams, ‘Eliza enthroned?: the court and its politics’, in Christopher Haigh (ed.), The Reign of Elizabeth (London: Macmillan, 1984), p. 67.
4. Maureen Quilligan, Milton’s Spenser: The Politics of Reading (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), p. 172.
5. David Norbrook, Poetnj and Politics in the English Renaissance, (London: Routledge, 1985), p. 118.