The papers consist of the following:

(i) Captain John Browne’s patent for refining sugar in Scotland with a list of his debts, 1660, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Papers, 1661-1662, concerning the confinement and release of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 5);

(iii) Various Privy Council papers, 1664-1682, undated (folio 10);

(iv) Memorandum, 2 February 1667, for the 11th Earl of Errol concerning his office (folio 42);

(v) "A list of those who sign’d the bond for themselves, tennents and servants, their keeping of the peace at Lanarke", 24 October 1667 (folio 44);

(vi) Private memorial, 31 December 1667, from the King to the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 46);

(vii) Copies of royal letters, 1668-1678, to the Privy Council (folio 48);

(viii) Memorandum for, and copy of the King's letter concerning, the Marquess of Montrose, 1668 (folio 61);

(ix) Letter, 11 June 1669, of Samuel Hartlib, enclosing a petition of Robert Graham and others concerning the importation of Scottish cattle (folio 63);

(x) List of papers sent with the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale to London, 25 August 1669 (folio 66);

(xi) Royal instructions, 1669, to the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 67);

(xii) Copy of the commission, 1669, for regulating the courts of Scotland (folio 72);

(xiii) 'Overtures anent the act concerning the militia’, with a draft of the act, 1669 (folio 74);

(xiv) Memorandum, 2 August 1669, of Parliamentary business (folio 79);

(xv) 'First draught of the act of supremacy', 1669 (folio 79);

(xvi) Draft of the 'Act anent his Ma[jes]ties royall prerogative in Church matters and for settling the government thereof, 1669’ (folio 84);

(xvii) Draft of the King's speech, 30 August 1675, to the English Parliament (folio 87);

(xviii) Printed copy of the King's speech, 22 May 1685, to the English Parliament (folio 88);

(xix) Licence, 3 July 1685, to the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale to leave Scotland (folio 92);

(xx) Secret instructions, 17 April 1695, to the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale as Lord High Commissioner from the King (folio 93);

(xxi) Copies of royal letters, 1695-1696, to the Privy Council (folio 95);

(xxii) Various parliamentary papers, chiefly undated but circa 1660-1697 (folio 113).