The contents are as follows:

(i) Disbound account book, 1736, of Joseph Enzer for plaster and stucco work at Yester with 'Observations on Joseph Enzers Accompts' (folio 1);

(ii) Glaziers' bills: George Rouchead, Gifford, 1727-1739 (folio 16); Alexander Burton, Edinburgh, 1736-1757 (folio 18); William Burn, Gifford, 1752-1762 (folio 27);

(iii) Painters' bills: James and George Norrie, Edinburgh, 1736-1755 (folio 45); James Fisher, Gifford, 1759-1762 (folio 61);

(iv) Accounts, 1717-1762, for building and structural repairs to farm buildings and tenants' houses (folio 64);

(v) Accounts, 1717-1739, of lime furnished for building (folio 100);

(vi) Building accounts for Garvald Manse, 1733, including a receipt by William Adam, and for Gifford Walk Mill, 1723-1724 (folio 104);

(vii) Accounts, 1737, of William Adam for building the stables at Edinburgh (see also MS.14551) (folio 119);

(viii) Discharge, 1740, of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale's proportion of repairing the church and manse of Yester (folio 123);

(ix) Quarriers' accounts, 1751-1760 (folio 124);

(x) Miscellaneous building accounts, 1724-1760 (folio 135).