The contents are as follows:

(i) Disbound account books, 1686-1696, of workmen's wages (folio 1);

(ii) Various accounts, 1670-1695, undated, of servants' and workmen's wages (folio 59);

(iii) Receipts and related papers by ministers and schoolmasters for payments: John Stirling, Minister of Lady Yester's Church, Edinburgh, 1647-1672 (folio 96); Andrew Bannatyne, Minister of Garvald, 1652-1655 (folio 108); James Tweeddie, Minister of Foulden, 1656 (folio 120); William Johnstone of Laverocklaw, Minister of Coldstream, 1662-1663 (folio 121); Robert Foord, Minister of Garvald, 1667-1671 (folio 123); John Browne, Minister of Bara, 1668-1695 (folio 127); William Calderwood, Minister of Dalkeith, 1672-1673 (folio 166); Lawrence Charteris, Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh, 1674-1687 (folio 171); James Graeme, Minister of Salton, 1682-1687 (folio 179); Patrick Knox, schoolmaster, Yester, 1682-1695 (folio 183); Robert Meldrum, Minister of Yester, 1684-1696 (folio 196); Walter Gray, Minister of Garvald, 1690-1697 (folio 203); Robert Colvill, Minister of Bara, 1696 (folio 209); John Watson, Minister of Whittinghame, 1696 (folio 210).