The contents are as follows:

(i) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1674-1675, for travel on the European mainland, chiefly France and Italy, including Italian booksellers' bills (folio 1);

(ii) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1678-1679, for travel to Holland, including a Dutch bookseller's bill (folio 31);

(iii) Accounts, 1677-1681, for Lady Anne Hay on the European mainland, chiefly Holland (folio 44);

(iv) Bills of exchange, 1678-1688, from various cities on the European mainland (folio 83);

(v) List of expenses, 1678-1709, with inn and horses bills for journeys between Edinburgh and London, and within England (folio 120);

(vi) List of expenses, November 1679, on going to Berwick to meet the Duke of York (folio 220);

(vii) Inn bills, April-May 1686, for Belford, Berwick and Alnwick (folio 221);

(viii) Horse bill, July 1698, for the Earl of Dundonald, Edinburgh (folio 227);

(ix) Various Scottish inn and horse bills, 1671-1687 (folio 228);

(x) Accounts for various servants’ journeys, 1671-1701 (folio 282).