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
Alexander Arbuthnot (poet) to the charge of the kirk of St. Andrews, ordered him to return to his duties at King's College. Minister of Logie Buchan (1568), of Forve and Arbuthnott (1569) and of St Andrews (1583). Moderator of the General Assembly (1573 and 1577). He matriculated his arms. Buried St Nicholas, Aberdeen. His extant works are three poems, "The Praises of Wemen" (4 lines), "On Luve" (10 lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure (poor) Scholar" (189 lines), and a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, "Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica", of which an English continuation, by Dr John Arbuthnot,