ARBUTHNOTT, John 5th Viscount of Arbuthnott ¹

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John married Jean MORRISON after 21 August 1711.¹ (Jean MORRISON was born about 1693.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John, fifth Viscount of Arbuthnott. He married, soon after his succession, Jean Morrison, second daughter of William Morrison of Prestongraiige. This marriage does not appear to have met with the approval of the Arbuthnott family as a whole, and in an obligation, dated 21 August 1711, in favour of his future father-in-law, Lord Arbuthnott sets out that he has agreed to enter into a contract of marriage by consent of several of his friends and relations. It appears that William Morrison declined to give more than 40,000 merks with his daughter by way of tocher, and that Lord Arbutlmott's friends would not admit a less sum than 50,000 merks to be inserted in the contract, and it was accordingly agreed that William Morrison should settle the larger sum, and that Lord Arbuthnott should refund the 10,000 merks on his attaining the age of twenty-one years complete. This obligation was reduced, at Lord Arbuthnott's instance, by the Court of Session, 22 November 1716, as 'contra fidem tabularum nuptialium' "

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹