The manuscript consists of:

(i) Papers, being chiefly discharges of taxation: churches of Peebles, Houston, Belton, Lyne and lands of Powgavie, 1618-1668, including bonds of relief (folio 2); lands of Rodonna and Hopetoun, 1627-1639 (folio 34); teinds of Bara, 1629-1637 (folio 45); barony of Loquhariot, 1629-1638 (folio 53); barony of Auchtermuir, 1632-1639 (folio 60); tax paid to the Lords of Session, 1633-1636 (folio 63);

(ii) Miscellaneous taxation papers, 1633-1665, undated (folio 68);

(iii) Papers, 1639-1672, undated, including accounts, of public debts owing to the 1st Earl of Tweeddale (folio 94).