The contents are as follows: notarial copy, dated 1736, of a 'Decreit of Mutuall Declarator of Reductione In Favours of the Trades of the Canongate', 1694 (folio ii); copy of a decree, 1767, of the Sheriff Depute of Edinburgh in favour of the Incorporations of Tailors of Canongate and of Potterrow regarding wages and breakfast-hours (folio iv); copy of a decision, 1767, of the Bailies of the Canongate confirming the latter in favour of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate (folio 5). At the end of the volume, inverted, are lists of members absent from burials, 1784-1785.