The papers include reports on suspected persons and prisoners, chiefly in Brechin and its neighbourhood; undertakings of released prisoners to assist the Government in the search for arms; complaints of the town of Kelso against the conduct of the officer commanding the troops there (folio 44); a memorial on the sufferings of the Duke of Montrose's tenants in 1746 (folio 91); and lists of arms, quarters, sick, courts martial, etc.