BUGGERS, in church-history, the same with Bulgarians, a sect of heretics, which, among other errors, held, that men ought to believe no Scripture but the New Testament; that baptism was not necessary to infants; that husbands who conversed with their wives could not be saved; and that an oath was absolutely unlawful. The Buggers are mentioned by Matthew Paris, in the reign of Henry III. under the name of Bugares. They were strenuously refuted by Fr. Robert, a Dominican, furnished the Bugger, as having formerly made profession of this heresy.