Volume 1: 1771 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica!
Buggery
Buggery, is defined by Sir Edward Coke to be a carnal copulation against nature, either by the confusion of species, that is to say, a man or woman with a brute beast; or sexes, as a man with a man, or man unnaturally with a woman. It is said this sin against God and nature was first brought into England by the Lombards; and anciently, according to some writers, it was punishable with burning; but others say, with burying alive. It is, by statute, felony without benefit of clergy, and is always excepted out of a general pardon.