as laundresses use to put in their smoothing-
boxes, when it was fiery hot, held it
between his teeth, then in his hand, and
threw it about like a stone; but this I
observ'd he cared not to hold very long.
Then he stoode on a small pot, and, bending
his body, tooke a glowing iron with
his mouthe from betweene his feete, without
touching the pot or ground with his
hands, with divers other prodigious feats.


The secret methods employed by Richardson
were disclosed by his servant, and this
publicity seems to have brought his career to a
sudden close; at least I have found no record
of his subsequent movements.

About 1713 a fire-eater named De Heiterkeit,
a native of Annivi, in Savoy, flourished
for a time in London. He performed five times
a day at the Duke of Marlborough's Head, in
Fleet Street, the prices being half-a-crown,
eighteen pence and one shilling.

According to London Tit-Bits, ``De Heiterkeit
had the honor of exhibiting before Louis
XIV., the Emperor of Austria, the King of
Sicily and the Doge of Venice, and his name
having reached the Inquisition, that holy office