_Edmund Spenser._--The subjoined paragraph from _The Times_ newspaper, the
readers of "N. & Q." may perhaps wish to find in a less voluminous journal,
but by biographers of Spenser more likely to be consulted.
"_Edmund Spenser._--The literary world will be glad to learn that the
locality of the illustrious author of _The Faëry Queen_ has been
ascertained. Mr. F. F. Spenser, of Halifax, in making some researches
into the ancient residence of his own family, has been fortunate in
identifying it with that of the great Elizabethan bard, and, we are
informed, is about to lay the particulars before the public. The little
rural village of Hurstwood, near Burnley, in Lancashire, is the
honoured locality; and in the romantic Alpine scenery of that
neighbourhood it is probable Spenser took refuge when he was driven by
academical disappointments 'to his relations in the north of England.'
The family of that great poet appear to have resided at Hurstwood about
four hundred years, that is, from the early part of the reign of Edward
II. to the year 1690."--_The Times_, Wednesday, June 16, 1841.