Jonas Moore

I remember Sir Jonas told us that a Jesuite (I think it was Greenbergerus of the Roman college) found out a way of flying, and that he made a youth perform it. Mr Gascoigne taught an Irish boy that way, and he flew over the river in Lancashire (or threreabout) but when he was up in the air, the people gave a shot, whereat the boy being frightened, he fell down on the other side of the river, and broke his legs, and when he came to himself, he said that he thought the people had seen some strange apparition, which fancy amazed him. This was anno 1635 and he spoke of it in the Royal Society, upon the account of the flying at Paris, two years since.