318 B O U 
Bourignonifm ; and one of Antoinette’s principal books, 
viz. The Light ot the World, was publilhed in Englifli, 
in 1696; to which the tranflator added along preface to 
prove that this maid ought at leaft to pafs for an extraor¬ 
dinary prophetefs. Mr. Charles Lefley, in the preface to 
the Iecond edition of his Snake in the Grafs, obferved the 
errors of this left; and they were refuted at large by 
Dr. Cockburn, in a piece intitled, Bourignonifm detefted, 
againft: Meffrs. Poiret, De Lort, and the Englilh tranlla- 
tor of Lux Mundi, who endeavoured to fliew that (he was 
infpired, and liad received a commiffion from God to re¬ 
form Chrillianity. This was anfwered by the Bourignon- 
ifts in an apology for their leader ; who has a remnant 
flill left in lome parts of North Britain. There is an ex- 
traft of her works in the Leipfic afts for May 1687, and 
■January i<>88. She died at Faneker, in the province of 
Frife, October 30, 1680. Her works have been printed 
in 18 vols. oftavo. 
BOURMONT', a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Upper Marne, fitu- 
ated on afteep mountain : eight leagues north of Langres, 
and fix eaft-north-eafl of Chaumont en Balligny. Lat.48. 
12. N. Ion. 23. 18. E. Ferro. 
BOURN, /. [borne, Fr.] A bound ; a limit: 
That undifcover’d country, from whole bourn 
No traveller returns. Shake/peare. 
[From burn, Saxon.] A brook; a torrent: whence many 
towns, feated near brooks, have names ending in bourn. 
It is not now tiled in either fenfe ; though the iecond con¬ 
tinues in the Scottilh dialeCt: 
Ne dwelling Neptune, ne loud thund’ring Jove, 
Can change my cheer, or make me ever mourn : 
My little boat can fafely pafs this perilous Journ. Spenfer. 
BOURN, a fmall market town in Lincolnlhire, dillant 
from Stamford, ten miles ; Spalding, twelve; Peterbo¬ 
rough, fixteen ; Sleaford, eighteen ; and ninety-feven miles 
from London. It is famous for being the birth-place of 
that great (latefman, Sir William Cecil. Here was for¬ 
merly an abbey and a caftle ; very few veltiges of either 
are now left. Some fay Edmund Ironfides was crowned 
at Bourn in 1016 : but, if we confiderthat this king fwayed 
the fceptre only about nine months, and was engaged in 
wars the whole of this time in the fouthern parts of the 
kingdom, this will carry witli it but a fmall degree of 
probability. Here are two alms-houfes, one for fix poor 
old men, the other for as many poor old women, each 
endowed with 30I. per annum ; and alfo a free-fchool, with 
a yearly falary of 35I. for the mailer. The tanning bufi- 
nefs is the chief employment of the town. The market 
is on a Saturday ; fairs, March 7, MaV 6, and Oft. 29. 
BOUR'NASEL, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aveiron : four leagues and a half N. W. Rhodez. 
BOURNE (Vincent), M. A. an amiable writer, whole 
clallical talle was only equalled by the goodnefs of his heart, 
was fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, and ullier of 
Weflminller fchool. From conlcientious motives, he was 
induced to refufe a very valuable ecclefiallical preferment 
offered him in the moll liberal manner by a noble duke. 
His only publication was a volume of Poems, in iamo. re¬ 
printed, with improvements, in 4to. 1772. 
BOURNEVIL'LE, a town of France, in the department 
®f the Eure : two leagues north-well of Pont Audemer. 
BOURNEZE AU', a town of France, in the department 
©f the Vendee: five leagues north-well of Fontenay-le- 
Comte. 
EOURNIQUEI.', a town of France, in the department 
©f the Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Montauban, fituated on the fouth fide of the Aveiron : 
thirteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Montauban, and twenty- 
five fbuth-fouth-eall of Cahors. 
B.OURNOU', or Burnum. See Bornou. 
BOU'RO, a fmall ifland north of the illand of Sumatra : 
five leagues north-eaft of Acheen. 
B O U 
BOU'RO, or Bourro, one of the Molucca Iflands, 
about 130 miles in circumference, between Celebes and 
Ceram. Lat. 4. S. Ion. 126. E. Greenwich. 
BOU'RON, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 
the fee of a Greek bilhop : fifteen miles from the coaft of 
the Archipelago. 
BOURRE'RI A,y. in botany. SeeEHRETiA. 
BOURSAU'LT (Edmund), born in 1638, at Muffi- 
l’dvdque in Burgundy. He was not, brought up at fchool, 
and never learnt Latin. He could only fpeak the rude pro¬ 
vincial dialeft of his country, when he came to Paris in 
1651. But, by the perufal of good books, he was foon 
able to converfe and to write elegantly in French. The 
duchefs of Angouletne having taken him to be her fecre- 
tary, he was engaged to turn every week the gazette into 
rhyme, which got him a penlion of 2000 livres. Louis XIV. 
and his court were much entertained with him ; but, hav¬ 
ing employed his fatire againft the Fra.ncifcans and the 
Capuchins, he was filenced. The queen’a confelfor, a 
Spanilh cordelier, caufed both the gazette and the penfion 
to be fuppreffed; and would have laid him in the Baftile, 
had it not been for the intereft exerted in his behalf by his 
patrons. He fhortly after obtained a new licence, and 
publilhed his gazette under the title of the Merry Mufe; 
but it was again fuppreffed. He got into favour once more, 
and was made receiver of the excife at Montlufon, where 
he died, aged fixty-three, September 5, 1701. He wrote 
feveral theatrical pieces, and other works. The chief of 
them are, Aifop in the City, and Aifop at Court; which 
have remained to the (lage, and are Hill afted with ap- 
plaufe. Corneille had a fincere regard for Bourfault, 
whom he ufed to call'his Jon , and infilled on his_ applying 
to be admitted a member of the academy. Bourfault de¬ 
filed to be excufed on account of his ignorance, adding 
with his ufual fimplicity, “What would the academy do 
with an ignorant and illiterate (ignare et non lettre) member, 
who knows neither Latin nor Greek ?” “ We are not talk¬ 
ing (returned Corneille) of a Greek or Latin academy, but 
of a French academy ; and who underftands French better 
than you ?” There are likewife by him, 1. Some Romances: 
The Marquis de Chavigny; The Prince de Conde; Arte- 
mifia and Polyanthus. 2. Lettres a Babet. 3. Lettres 
Nouvelles, with fables, tales, epigrams, remarks, bon- 
mots, &c. 3 vols. 12mo. There is an edition of the The¬ 
atre de Bourfault, in 3 vols. 121110. 1746. 
BOURSIER' (Lawrence Francis), doftor of the Sor- 
bonne, born at Ecoven in the diocefe of Paris, in 1679, 
and died at Paris in 1749, aged feventy. He publilhed, 
1. L’Aftion de Dieu fur les Creatures; Paris, 2vols. 4to. 
or 6 vols. 121110. This treatife, in which he endeavours 
toeftablifh phyfical promotion by argument, was attacked 
by Malebranche : the author feems to have been a pro r 
found metaphyfician. 2. A Memoir prefent to Peter the 
Great by the doftors of Sorbonne for the re-union of the 
Greek and Latin churches,. When the czar appeared in 
the Sorbonne, Bourlier addreffed him on the fubjeft of this 
memoir. The monarch immediately anfwered, that he was 
but a foldier. Bourlier replied, that he was a hero; and 
that, as a prince, he was a protestor of religion. “ This 
re-union is not fo eafy a matter (faid the czar); there are 
three points that divide us : the pope, the proceflion of 
the holy ghoft-.” As he had forgot the third point, 
which is the unleavened bread and the cup, Bourlier re¬ 
called it to his mind. “ As for that article, returned the 
emperor, we fliall have no difficulty in coming to an agree¬ 
ment.” At the end of the converfation, the Ruffian fto- 
vereign alked for a memorandum of it: it was given him; 
but nothing more was ever heard of it. 3. Numerous 
trafts on fubjefts of ecclefiallical controverfy.—He fliould 
not be confounded with Philip Bourfier, deacon of Paris, 
where he was born in 1693, and died in 1768, aged feven- 
ty-five. He was the firll author, in 1727, of the Nou¬ 
velles Ecclefiaftrques; in which work he had feveral co¬ 
adjutors, as Meffrs. d’Etemare, de Fernanville, Berger, de 
Ruflye, de Troya, Fontaine. But he alone computed the 
3 greateft. 
