The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts and receipts, 1726-1764, of servants' and workmen's wages (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts of John Yule, 1733-1761, and William Aytoun, 1759-1762, for farm work (folio 189);

(iii) Bills of James Meek, 1736-1737, John Cochran, 1738-1739, and receipts by Robert Murdoch, 1751-1760, for maintaining the Marquess of Tweeddale's garden in Edinburgh (folio 208);

(iv) Receipts, 1732-1754, by James Witherspoon, Minister of Yester (folio 214);

(v) Receipts, 1733-1762, of various ministers and schoolmasters (folio 225).