So late as 1690 Harris played Colonel Downright in ‘Widow Ranter,’ by Mrs. Behn.
He obtained little reputation in his profession, and on the accession of Queen Anne was appointed engraver to the mint.
Giles Jacob says by the assistance of his friends he arrived at being an author (Lives and Characters, i.
129), and assigns him two plays: ‘The Mistakes, or the False Report,’ a tragi-comedy, 4to, 1691, acted at the Theatre Royal in 1690 by a company including Mountfort and Mrs. Bracegirdle.
This is a poor piece as regards plot and language, which according to Jacob was composed by another person and consigned to Harris, who spoiled it.