THE
HISTORY
OF
JOHN BULL.
CHAP. I.
The occasion of the lawsuit.
I NEED not tell you of the great quarrels, that have happened in our neighbourhood since the death of the late lord Strutt[1]; how the parson[2], and a cunning attorney[3], got him to settle his estate upon his cousin Philip Baboon[4] to the great disappointment of his cousin esquire South[5]. Some stick not to say, that the parson and the attorney forged a will, for which they were well paid by the family of the Baboons: let that be as it will, it is matter of fact, that the honour and estate have continued ever since in the person of Philip Baboon.
- ↑ Charles II. of Spain died without issue, and
- ↑ Card. Portocarero and the
- ↑ marshal of Harcourt, employed, as is supposed, by the house of Bourbon, prevailed upon him to make a will, by which he settled the succession of the Spanish monarchy upon
- ↑ Philip of Bourbon duke of Anjou, though his right had by the most solemn renunciations been barred in favour of
- ↑ the archduke Charles of Austria;
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