Unless specified otherwise, the location is London.

The contents are as follows:

(i) Bills, 1669-1670, for clothing, jewellery and furnishings (folio 1);

(ii) Freight bills, 1670, for goods from London to Leith (folio 11);

(iii) Bills, March 1672, for cloth and lace (folio 13);

(iv) Bills March-June 1673, for picture frames and books (folio 16);

(v) Notes, June 1674, to tradesmen (folio 18);

(vi) Bill, 1675, for furnishings (folio 20);

(vii) Account, May 1676, of goods bought in London (folio 21);

(viii) Laundry bill and a bill for perfume, July 1678 (folio 22);

(ix) Receipt, 4 November 1678, by Sir Godfrey Kneller of payment for two pictures (folio 24);

(x) Tradesmen's bills, 1678-1679; merchants, chiefly mercers, and tailors (folio 25); George Heath, for scones (folio 70); John Ford, apothecary (folio 7I); farrier (folio 73); James Trumble, coachmaker (folio 75); laundry (folio 77);

(xi) Laundry bills, and receipt by Honor Hungerford of payment for lodgings, Bath, August 1679 (folio 85);

(xii) Freight bill, April 1681, for goods from London to Leith, (folio 87)

(xiii) Tradesmen's bills, 1682: mercers and tailors; receipt for payment of freight for goods from London to Leith; receipt for a subscription 'for promoting and carrying on of a new Octavo HERBAL', to be printed by James Newton (folio 88);

(xiv) Tradesmen's bills for provisions, 1685-1686, arranged as follows: bread (folio 96); butter and eggs (folio 117); meat (folio 147); poultry (folio 170); fish (folio 204); spices (folio 219); vegetables and herbs (folio 249); fruit (folio 282); wine (folio 284); ale (folio 312); coal and candles (folio 317); medicines (folio 355); with monthly summaries of all these bills (folio 356).