The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts and financial papers, 1653-1690, of and concerning William Haitlie, butler, Yester (folio 1);

(ii) Receipts, 1667-1671, by Walter Nisbet for monies for the use of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 117);

(iii) Receipts, 1668-1684, by Jean and Elizabeth Meldrum for monies for the use of the Countess of Tweeddale (folio 148);

(iv) Accounts, 1682-1695, of crops paid to workmen and servants (folio 245);

(v) Receipts and accounts, 1686-1688, of Ninian Whyte, under-butler, Yester, for payments in kind (folio 283);

(vi) Miscellaneous household accounts and memoranda, 1653-1693 (folio 308).