BUGGEY, a province of France, bounded on the east 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 abound in trouts, and there is plenty of all sorts of game. The chief places are Belley the capital, Seifel, St Rambert, Fort L'Ecluse, and Chateau Neuf.

BUGGERS, (Bulgarii), anciently signified a kind of heretics, otherwise called Paterini, Cathari, and Albigenses.

The word is formed of the French Bougres, and that from Bulgria or Bulgaria, the country where they chiefly appeared. Among other errors they 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. They were strenuously refuted by Fr. Robert, a Dominican, surnamed the Bugger, as having formerly made profession of this heresy.

The Buggers are mentioned by Matthew Paris, in the reign of Henry III. under the name of Bugares. Circa dies autem illos invaluit haeretica pravitas eorum qui vulgariter dicuntur Paterini et Bugares, de quorum erroribus malo tacere quam loqui.