[12]The Chapel, or “Meeting House” as it was called in Priestley’s time, adjoined the Alms House Garth and was erected in 1673, after the passage of the Act of Indulgence. It was pulled down in 1847 and the present Mill Hill Chapel erected on its site. [13]“_Lectures on the Memory of the Just._ A Series of Discourses on the Lives and Times of the Ministers of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds.” [14]He had in John Lee, a native of Leeds and a man of about his own age, who became Solicitor-General in 1782, a friend who offered to further his interests in that matter. Priestley, in his autobiography, says: “Mr Lee showed himself particularly my friend at the time I left Lord Shelburne, assisting me in the difficulties with which I was then pressed, and continuing to befriend me afterwards by seasonable benefactions.” [15]Richard Brinsley Sheridan at that time represented Stafford in the House of Commons. Both he and Fox sympathised with Priestley and sought to secure him compensation for his losses. [16]Withering’s _Botanical Arrangement_, 2nd Ed. 3 vols. 1792. [17]Mercuric oxide made by heating quicksilver in air. [18]Nitrous oxide: _see_ p. 182. [19]Mercuric oxide made by heating mercuric nitrate. [20]See the author’s _Essays in Historical Chemistry_—“Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier and La Révolution Chimique.” INDEX A Aikin, Anna Lætitia, 33, 43; her poem _Corsica_, 70, 75. Aikin, John, 32, 33, 36, 121. Aikin, Lucy, 38. _Air, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of_, Priestley’s treatise on, 77, 103, 167 _et seq._ Air, Fixed, 175, 176; Priestley’s view of its nature, 220. Air, Inflammable, 179, 220. Alkaline Air (Ammonia), Priestley’s isolation of, 185; its properties, 186; decomposition of by electricity, 210; nature of, 221. Ammonia Gas, Priestley’s discovery of, 185; its properties, 186. Ammonium Sesquicarbonate, Synthesis of, by Priestley, 186. B Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Lætitia Aikin), 33, 160. Belloc, Madame, account of the Priestleys, 2; of the times of Priestley, 5; her account of Mrs Priestley, 49. Bewley, Richard, his mephitic julep, 79. Birmingham Riots of 1791, 120 _et seq._ Bolton, H. Carrington, his account of the Lunar Society, 96. Boulton, Matthew, founds the Lunar Society of Birmingham, 94. Boyle, Robert, his recognition that different elastic fluids exist, 174. Bright, Henry A., his account of the Warrington Academy, 34. Burke, Edmund, his denunciation of Priestley, 147. C Canton, John, his school, 9, 62. “Conversion of Water into Air, Seeming,” Priestley’s work on, 216. _Corruptions of Christianity_, Priestley’s, 106.