John Arbuthnot Spanish Succession. The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sought to end it by withdrawing from all England's alliances and negotiating directly with France. Swift wrote "The Conduct of the Allies," and Arbuthnot wrote a series of five pamphlets featuring John Bull. The first of these, "Law Is a Bottomless Pit" (1712), introduced a simple allegory to explain the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys
John Arbuthnot (agriculturist) Anastasia Robinson. Arbuthnot was married on five occasions. Firstly, in 1753-1759, to Sally Margaret Cecil until she died (buried 19 February 1759), the daughter of John Cecil of Ravensbury (buried 21 April 1760). He then married for a second time, in 1760–1761, to Ursula Fitzgerald until she suddenly died (buried 12 March 1761), however, the couple did have one son, John Arbuthnot Jr (b.1761). His third wife, whom he married on 19 October 1762 and to whom he remained married until 1782, was Anne Stone (b. 26 September 1739; d. Calais, 15 November 1782), the only daughter of Richard Stone,