29 October 1684
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1684-1685
Volume:
1
Comments:
Christopher Jeaffreson to Colonel Hill, 29 Oct. 1684: Sir James Hackett, lieutenant-colonell to the Lord Dunbarton's regiment, was wounded in the thigh by one Mr Potter in the Playhouse; of which woud he has since died. He is much lamented by his Majesty, and all that knew him (J. C. Jeaffreson, A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century [London, 1878], II, 143-44)