Leviticus 14:40 - Then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the CODE and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
In 1791, many moons ago, the bunting, beggarly, brass-making, brazen-faced, brazen-hearted, blackguard, bustling, booby Birmingham mob were out for blood. Their target was the religious dissenter Joseph Priestley, inventor of dephlogisticated air and the pencil rubber. Priestley was desperate to hide his scientific treasures before the rioters reached his house, so he placed them in a special box, took a carriage to the south of the city and hid them under a tree. As the birds sang, he made a note of the location:
N X2° 2(X.XXX- 0.637) W 002° 0(X.XXX- 0.879)
Priestley then sent tidings to eight friends, all lunaticks from his Birmingham group, arranging to meet them at 11:15 in Brum's NE corner in the valley of the wood pigeon. On the way there he drew up a code based on the work of another Birmingham group performing under a pseudonym. He then cut the code into nine pieces and placed each one inside a stone from a distant place. Arriving in the valley he first took a register of attendees and their years of birth and then gave a stone to each of his friends, keeping one for himself. Two of the friends, who became noteworthy in 2011, noted that their piece of the code used the same symbol - so what came first? Priestley then commanded that they follow Leviticus 14:40 and throw the stones outside the city. And so they did!
So when unseen destruction lurks,
Which men like mice may share,
May some faiR ANGELS Clear thy path,
And break the hidden snare.
When Priestley returned home, he found that one of his laboratory mice (an un-striped Ruwenzori Hybomys) had, with the help of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, written a petition pleading for her release. Priestley, contemplating his own fate at the hands of the rioters, took pity on the mouse and freed her from her cage. However there was one condition: the mouse had to keep safe the register that Priestley had taken earlier, as it identified the secret locations of the nine stones. The mouse agreed. Priestley then left his house and moved to America, never to return. The rioters arrived just too late to catch him and so destroyed his house. The mouse escaped taking Priestley's register and set up house in the Lickeys. Three years later Samuel Taylor Coolridge wrote a poem "To Priestley" in which he hinted at the location of the mouse's house.
By reciting the Priestley Poem, find the mouse's house and unlock the register … find the nine stones … follow the bird's directions and discover Priestley's scientific treasures which include the first part of the Leviticus Code.
There is nothing at the listed coordinates.
Links to other caches in the series:
¤ The Leviticus Code
¤ The Priestley Code
¤ The Priestley Poem
¤ Stone 1
¤ Stone 2
¤ Stone 3
¤ Stone 4
¤ Stone 5
¤ Stone 6
¤ Stone 7
¤ Stone 8
¤ Stone 9
¤ The Holiness Code
¤ Bonus - The Leviticus Code Breaker
¤ Bonus - The Leviticus Code Maker
Part of The Final Revelation series of 66 puzzle caches.