The contents are as follows.

(i) ‘Remarks on the Exhortation of the Commission of the General Assembly the 15th of November 1745’, with a covering letter, 1745. (Folio 1.)

(ii) ‘Remarks’ on a paper published in the ‘Scots Magazine’, December 1745, page 562, regarding Prince Charles Edward’s second Manifesto, 1746. (Folio 3 verso.)

(iii) Letter of a Jacobite justifying his conduct, beginning, “I have been told that a good friend of mine had said concerning the step I took last year, ‘that he wondered how I had satisfyed my own conscience in such an attempt’”. It is divided into 35 paragraphs, preceded by a list of contents, and followed by a relevant letter. (Folio 7.)

(iv) ‘A view of the English Constitution with some facts not generally known’, followed by a postscript dated 1747, a letter dated 1747, described as, “A sketch of Dr. Whiston’s politics compared with the Bishop of Bangor’s wherein His Lordship appears to be the truest Whig and to say the most for the present Gt”, (referring to Whiston’s ‘Scripture politicks’, 1717) (folio 53), and another copy of (iii) (letter of a Jacobite justifying his conduct), all in the same hand, the whole preceded by an Advertisement dated 1749-1750. (Folio 15.)

(v) Letter criticizing an ‘Essay on Virtue’ by ‘Mr. R.’ (Folio 73 verso.)

(vi) A manuscript copy of William Meston, ‘Mob contra mob’ (1738). A note on the title-page states that Meston wrote the poem on the occasion of disturbances attending the ordination of his comrade John Gordon as Minister of Old Deer, placing the incident in 1708 or 1709 (the date given in Hew Scott’s ‘Fasti’, 1926, is 1711). (Folio 83.)

Only (vi) appears to be known in printed form.