Wallington.
[Basilica is a name given to a digest of laws commenced by the Emperor
Basilius in the year 867, and completed by his son Leo the philosopher
in the year 880, the former having carried the work as far as forty
books, and the latter having added twenty more, in which state it was
published. The complete edition of Charles Annibal Fabrot, which
appeared at Paris in 1647, proved of great service to the study of
ancient jurisprudence. It is contained in seven volumes folio, and
accompanied with Latin version of the text, as well as of the Greek
scholia subjoined. See a valuable article on the Greek texts of the
Roman law, in the _Foreign Quarterly Review_, vol. vii. p. 461.--The
MS. "Memoirs of the Hon. John Lord Scudamore" seem to have been used by
Matthew Gibson in his _View of the Ancient and Present State of the
Churches of Door, Horne-Lacy, and Hempsted, with Memoirs of the
Scudamore Family_, 4to., 1727, as the substance of the passage quoted
by our correspondent is given at p. 95. of that work.]
_Fire at Honiton._--I am solicitous to learn the particulars of a fire
which occurred at Honiton, in Devonshire, in the year 1765, when the chapel
and school-house were burned down, and the former thereupon rebuilt by
_collections_ under a _brief_.
In a review of Mr. Digby Wyatt's "Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth
Century" (in the _Athenaeum_ for June 18th of the current year), reference
is made by Mrs. Treadwin of Exeter to "_a book_ mentioning two great fires
which occurred in 1756 and 1767 in Honiton," but it is not stated who was
the _author_ of that book. {368}
Can you or any of your readers furnish me with the _title_ of the book
intended, or direct me to any other sources of information on the subject
of the Honiton fires?