The contents are as follows:

(i) Legal accounts with Richard Douglas, advocate, 1678 (folio 1); James Hay of Carriber, Writer to the Signet, 1679-1687 (folio 3); Thomas Trotter, 1686 (folio 13); and John Buchanan, 1682-1691 (folio 14);

(ii) ‘Compt of teind drawen of the baronie of Newton for crope 1654’ with teind-book of the barony of Newton, 1671 (folio 40);

(iii) Accounts and receipts for the payment of cess, 1667-1696 (folio 48);

(iv) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1655-1697, undated (folio 78).