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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 80 | THE ORANGE-TREE TRICK the clerk of St. Martin's-in-the-Field: Parish Church, Trafalgar Square, London, England, I came upon the rec- ord of his burial. This record, which I found after many days' search among musty, faded parchments, showed that his Christian name was Isaac, and that he died May 25th or 29th, I731, and was buried in St. Martin's-in- the-Fields Parish Church. The records further show that he was buried in the Ai FAWKES's Booth in the Upper Moor- fields, will be prejented the FIRST wonderfal his Famous Dexterity of Pofture-Mafter, Bndy exceeds all Europe. The that Mulical Temple of Arts with two moving the one a Concert of the oher the Siege and of Gibraltar, of Machine being Parnaftus, the with finelt with three Piece Apollo moving of €lock-work andthe Pidtures, in the Mufes the firft World. playing on reprefents Bay 3d, the various Another Hill Nine Infiraments of Mulick, the bext a beauriful View of a River, with Syms and other Fowls and Filh, fporting as the' Alive, The lait gives a Profpeßt of the New Palace Yard, with the whole Pro- cellion of the late Coronation of their prefent Majefties murch- ing from the Hall to the Abbey, Note, Half the Performasce can't be in this Adver- tifement. Nore, We thow twice yvery Evening the Firft beginning at Five, the other & Seven. Clipping from the London Post during 1728, showing the oldest evidence procurable of the original "Two a Night" performance. From the Harry Houdini Collection. church vault, the coffin being carried by six men. Prayers were said in the church, candles were used, and the great bell was tolled. As the fees amounted to £6 I2S., a goodly sum for those days, all signs indicate that the funeral was on a scale more costly and impressive than the ordinary. Fawkes was worth at his death £10,000, which was considered an enormous sum in those days. Every penny of this he made performing at the fairs. The earliest announcements of Fawkes' performance in my collection are dated 1702 and include advertise- [63] |