Event Comment: Journal of the Earl of Anglesey, 25 Jan. 1671@2: At eight of the c
lock The King's playhouse took fire, and most of that side of
Russell Street and many other houses thereabout were burnt down, and we in
Drury Lane and all about in great danger; but the Lord had mercy, and by great industry and blowing up houses the fire was overcome: I had no rest, but sat up almost all night, even till six in the morning. The Lord pardon sin, which brings judgements (
HMC, 13th Report, Part VI [
London, 1893], p. 270.
The Bulstrode Papers (I, 217): About 8 hapened a sad and violent fire, which begun in the King's Theater, and in a few howers burnt down that...severall were hurt and killed, amongst which was
Mr Bell, one of the actors in that house. For a poem,
On the Unhappy Conflagration of the Theatre Royal, January 25th, 1672, see
Fitzgerald,
A New History of the English Stage, I, 137