"Here I stand, gentlemen, that could once leap forty two feet upon level ground, at three standing jumps, backward or forward … I remember I once leaped for three hundred guineas with Count Klopstock, the great leaper, leaping-master to the Prince of Passau … First he began with the running Jump, and a most damnable bounce it was, that's certain. Everybody concluded that he had the match hollow, when only taking off my hat, stripping off neither coat, shoes, nor stockings, mind me, I fetches a run, and went beyond him one foot, three inches and three quarters measured, upon my soul, by Captain Pately's own standard."
(This was claimed by Richard “Beau” Nash (1674-1751), who played a leading part in elevating the social status of eighteenth-century Bath)