The contents are as follows:

(i) Bills for cloth goods from Edinburgh and Haddington merchants, 1722-1761 (folio);

(ii) Bills for clothing: Haddington and Gifford weavers, 1752-1762 (folio 62); Robert Carmichael, 1726-1739, and John Bartleman, 1754-1757, tailors, Edinburgh (folio 78); Edinburgh and Haddington shoemakers, 1726-1761 (folio 98); Edinburgh hatters, 1734-1760 (folio 108); Edinburgh glovers, 1729-1739 (folio 112); Edinburgh skinners, 1727-1761 (folio 116); Edinburgh tanners, 1737 (folio 124); Edinburgh wigmakers, 1730-1740 (folio 127); Edinburgh and Gifford washers, 1756-1757 (folio 131);

(iii) Bills for medical treatment and medicines: Edinburgh and Haddington surgeons, 1734-1759 (folio 135);

(iv) Bills for carpets, hangings and bedding from Edinburgh merchants, 1752-1760 (folio 148);

(v) Bills for snuff from David Symond, Edinburgh, 1730 (folio 153);

(vi) Bills for goods from Edinburgh tradesmen: armourers, 1734 (folio 154); gunsmith, 1734 (folio 157); watchmakers, 1739-1754 (folio 158); goldsmith, 1730 (folio 161);

(vii) Receipts of payment for newspaper advertisements, 1745-1762 (folio 162);

(viii) Bills for stationery and books, 1726-1760 (folio 165);

(ix) Bills for horse and coach expenses: saddlers, chiefly Hector Monro, Edinburgh, 1729-1734, John Hay, Haddington, 1733, Walter Boswell, Edinburgh, 1737-1740, and Charles Milne, Haddington, 1739-1762 (folio 178); Adam Cockburn, lorimer, Edinburgh, 1734 (folio 218); Robert Grant, harnessmaker, Edinburgh, 1722 (folio 219); coachmakers, chiefly John Home, Edinburgh, 1721-1764 (folio 221);

(x) Carriage accounts, 1738-1758 (folio 227).