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den bulls. Mr. Bandclot takes-the bulls worn by fol- 
diqrs on their belts.to be fomething more than mere orna¬ 
ments. They feem to have been conlidered as preserva¬ 
tives from dangers and difeafes, and even means of ac¬ 
quiring glory, and other advantages.. The like may per¬ 
haps be extended to the 'bulls on doors, which were 
probably placed t'qere as a fecurity to them from being- 
broken or violated. Bulla: alfo denoted a table hung up in 
the 'public courts, to diltinguifh. which days were Fa (hi and 
•which nefafti ; anfwerijig in Some meafUre to our calendar. 
BULLAUSPOUR', a town of Alia, in the country of 
Cahlore : 159 miles eaft of Lahore. 
BUL'LE, a town and bailiwic of Swfi fieri and, in the 
/canton of Fribourg: ten miles- South of Friburg. 
BUL'LEN-BAY, a bay of the Atlantic, between the 
■iliand of Achil and the well coaft of Ireland and county of 
Mayo. Tat. 54. o. N. Ion. 9. 43. W ( . Greenwich. 
BUI.LFNMEE'R, a town of Germany, in tlie circle 
of Weftptialia, and county of Oldenburg: eighteen miles 
north of Oldenburg,. 
BUL'L’ES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Qile, and chief place of a canton, in tire d ill rid of Cler¬ 
mont, on the river l^faFche, celebrated for its fine flax. 
Jt is two leagues north-eaft of Clermont, and three Call- 
-north-eaff of Beauvais. 
BUL'LET, f. \boulct, Fr.] A round ball of metal, 
ufually (hot out of guns: 
Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, 
And through the yielding planks a pafiage rind. Drydcn. 
Bullets are caff in iron moulds, confiding or two con¬ 
cave hemifpheres, with a handle whereby to hold them ; 
and between them is a hole, called the gate, at which to 
pour in the melted metal. The chaps or hemifpheres of 
bullet-moulds are fir ft punched, being blood-red hot, with 
a round-headed punch, of the shape and lize of theintend- 
ed bullets, 
BUL'LET {John Baptifc), died at Befancon, Sept. 6 , 
•<775, aged feventy-fix, after being vrt-any years dean of the 
univerfity in that city. He had a furprifmg memory, and, 
although devoted to irkfome ftudies, was of a mild and 
affable difpofition. His works are, 1. Hiftory of the Efta- 
blifhment of Cliriftianity, taken from Jewiffi and Pagan 
Authors, 17^4, 4to. 2. The Exiftence of God demon- 
firated by Nature, 2 vols. Svo. 3. Anfwers to fome Ob¬ 
jections of Unbelievers to the Bible, 3 vols. mruo. Thefe 
three works are much elteemed. 4. De Apoftdlica Ec- 
clefue Galiicanae origine, 175.2, nmo. 5. Memoirs on 
the Celtic Tongue, 1754-59, 3 vols. folio. 6. Researches 
into the Hiftory of Cards, 1757, Svo. 7. A Differtation 
on the Hiftory -of France, 1757, 8vo. 
BUL'LEYN (Wm.) a learned -phyfioan and botanift, 
born in tHe ifle of Ely, in fhe reign of Henry VIII. and 
educated at Cambridge. Bdtany being his favourite fhidy, 
he travelled through England, Scotland, and Germany, 
y.;ith an intention to improve his knowledge in that fcience. 
In the reign of Edward VI. or of queen Mary, Mr. Bul- 
leyn appears, from his remarks on the natural productions 
of 1 that country, t'o have relided at Norwich, or in that 
neighbourhood, and alfo to. have (pent fome tune at Blox- 
hall in Suffolk : but he afterwards'removed into the north, 
and fettled at Durham, where he pradifed phyfic with 
confiderabtc reputation and fuccefs. His great patron at 
this time was Sit Thomas Hilton, knight, baron of Hilton, 
-who was governor of Tinvnouth caftle in the reign of Phi¬ 
lip ami Mary. In 1560, he came to London, and, foon 
after his arrival, was accufed by William Hilton of Bi¬ 
dick, of having murdered his brother Sir Thomas, who 
had been his friend and patron. He was arraigned before 
the\ duke of Norfolk, and honourably acquitted. This 
.Hilton afterv. ards hired fome ruffians to aflaffinate the doc¬ 
tor ; bu.t, this attempt proving ineffedual, he had him ar- 
rrefted on an adion for debt, and he remained for a long 
time in prifon. During this confinement. Dr. Bulleyn 
•compofed fev.eral of tho.fe works which raifed his reputa- 
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tiqn as a medical writer. He died in January 1576, and 
was busied in St. Giles’s Cripplegate, in,the fame grave 
With his brother the divine, who died thirteen years be¬ 
fore, and in which John Fox the martyrologift was inter¬ 
red eleven years after. Dr. Bullcvn appears from his 
writings to have been,well acquainted with the works of 
the ancient Greek, Roman, and Arabian, phyfipians. Ac¬ 
cording to the rhodern practice, his books, were they ge¬ 
nerally known, would be of little ufe ; blit, as he was a 
man of-genius and fertile imagination, they are by no 
means barren of entertainment. He wrote, 1. The Go¬ 
vernment of Health, 1559, Svo. 2. A Regimen againfl 
the Pleurify, 8vo. London, 1562. 3. Bulleyri’s Bulwark 
of defence again!! all Sicknes, Sorenes,. and Wounds, that 
dooe daily alfault Mankinde ; London, 1562, folio. This 
includes the Goi'ernmeot of Health. 4. A Dialogue both 
pie riant and pietifull, wherein a goodlie Regimen againfl 
the.Fever Peltilence, with a Confolation and Comfort a- 
gainft Death; London, 1564, 8vo. 1569,. Svo. - Very fcarce. 
There is a wooden print of the author prefixed to the firft 
edition of his Government of Health; and alfo a fmall one 
engraved by Stukeley in 1722. 
BULLIAL'DUS (Ifmael), an eminent aftronomer, bom 
at Laon in the ifle of France, in. 1605. He travelled in 
his youth for the fake of improvement; and afterwards 
publifhed feveral works, among which are, 1. De Natura 
Lucis. 2. Philolaus. 3. Aftronotnia Philoluica, Opus 
novum in quo motus Planetarum per novam et veram Hy- 
pothefin demonftranir. 4. A'trono.mue Philolaicae funda¬ 
ment darius explicata et afferfa adverfus Zothi Wardi 
impugnationem. He alfo wrote a piece upon Geometry 
and Arithmetic. In 1661, he paid Hevelius a vifit at 
Dant-zic, for the purpofe of infpeding his optical and af- 
tronoinical apparatus. Afterwards-he became a prefbyter 
at Paris, arid died there in 1694. 
BUL'LINGER (Henry), born at Bremgarten, near Zu¬ 
rich in Swilferland, July 18, 1504. At the age of twelve, 
he was lent to l^mbriek, to be inftruded in grammar-learn¬ 
ing. After continuing here three years, he vventto Cologn. 
At this time his father, to make him feel for the diftretfes 
of others, and be more frugal and modgft in his drefs, and 
temperate in his diet, withdrew that money with which he 
was wont to fupply him ; fo that Bollinger was forced, 
according to the cuftom of thofe times, to ftiblift on the 
aims he got by ringing from door to door. At Cologn he 
ftudied logic, and commenced B. A- at (ixteen years old. 
He afterwards applied to the ftudy of divinity and canon 
law, and to the reading of the fathers. In 1522, he com¬ 
menced M. A. and, returning home, (pent a year in his 
father’s hou'fe, wholly employing hiinfelffin his {Indies. 
In 1527, he attended the ledures of Zuiriglius at Zurich ; 
and was with him at the famous deputation held at Bern 
in 1528. The year following, he was called to be minif- 
ter of the Proteftant church, in his native place at Brem¬ 
garten, where he met with great oppofition from the Pa- 
pills and Anabaptifts. The vidory gained by the Romifh 
cantons over the Proteftants in a battle fought in 1521, 
forced him, together with his father, brother, and col¬ 
league, to fly to Zurich, where he.was ch'ofen paftor in 
the room of Zuinglius, (lain in the battle. He died Sep¬ 
tember, 17-, 1575. Befides printed works, which fill ten 
volumes,, he left many in manufeript. He greatly a (lifted 
the Englilh divines who fifed into Sw Ife.rland from the per¬ 
fect! tion railed in England by queen Mary. His confuta¬ 
tion of the pope’s bull excommunicating queen Elizabeth, 
has been tranfiated into Englilh. The magiflrates of Zu¬ 
rich, by his perfuafion, eroded a new college in 153,8. 
BUL'LION,/! [fome derive it from ( 3 o %&- 0 a lump of 
earth, q. d. motley having no damp upon it; others from 
/ 3 sA a, a fignature, becaufe it is to receive the prince’s effi¬ 
gies ; and Minfevus, of billon , Fr. or Span, copper to 
make money of.] Gold or filver in the lump, unwrought, 
uncoined. — Bullion is (ilvt-r whole work-manfhip has no va¬ 
lue. And thus foreign coin hath no value here for its 
(lamp, and our coin is bullion in foreign dominions. Locke, 
Gold 
