He became known as ‘him who was stabbed by Sally Salisbury’ after an incident on the night of 18 December 1722, when a prostitute, Sally Pridden (known as Salisbury), stabbed him at the Three Tuns tavern in Chandos Street, apparently in a fit of passion during an argument over theatre tickets.
She was found guilty of assault and wounding, without intent to kill, and was fined and sent to Newgate prison where she died in 1724.