1. Popular poem, cited in an editorial footnote to Priestley's An appeal to the public on the subject of the riots in Birmingham (1791), in Rutt John Towill (ed.), The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley (London, 1817-32
2. hereafter cited as Works), xix, 356-57, n †. The poem reflects the popular beliefs that Priestley secreted gunpowder under a church so as to blow it up during a sermon, and that barrels of gunpowder were actually found in his laboratory during the "Priestley Riots". The accusation echoed the events surrounding the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.