a province of France, bounded on the east by by Savoy, on the west by Bresse, on the south by Dauphiny, and on the north by the territory of Gex and the Franche Comté. It is about 40 miles long, and 25 broad. Though it is a country full of hills and rivers, yet it is fertile in some places, the rivers abundant with trouts, and there are plenty of all sorts of game. The chief places are Belley the capital, Seifel, St. Rambert, Fort l'Ecluse, and Chateau-Neuf.

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 converted 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, surnamed the Bagger, as having formerly made profession of this heresy.