The contents are as follows:

(i) Inventories, 1659-1694, undated, of household and legal papers (folio 1);

(ii) Legal papers, 1662, concerning the claims of the 4th Viscount Stormont against the creditors of James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (folio 28);

(iii) Order, 19 June 1667, for a seat in Lady Yester Kirk for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 48);

(iv) Note of pictures bought in 1691 (folio 49);

(v) Inventories, 1691-1697, of plate, pewter, glasses, silver, jewels and money (folio 51);

(vi) Medical prescription, undated, endorsed 'Memorial from Sir Edmond King’ (folio 77);

(vii) Devotional notes, undated (folio 78);

(viii) Epitaph, undated, for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 80);

(ix) Miscellaneous legal and business papers, 1654-1696, undated (folio 81).