The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Exce[r]pta from the Synod Register of Glasgow and Air', 1687-1703 (folio 1);

(ii) 'Excerpta from The Register of the Presbytrie of Glasgow', 1687-1706 (folio 7);

(iii) 'Excerpta out of the Registers of the Sessions of Glasgow', 1583-1705 (folio 13); arranged under heads, with a contents table.

(iv) 'A List of the Magistrates of the City of Glasgow from anno 1583 to this present time', 1705, the latest date (folio 72);

(v) 'A List of the Ministers in the City of Glasgow from (some time after) the Reformation to this present time', 1706, the latest date (folio 78);

(vi) 'Hutchesons Hospitall' (folio 82); included are: copies of the mortifications made by George and Thomas Hutcheson, 1641; 'Masters & Collectors, or Preceptors, to Hutchesons Hospitall', 1641-1700.