Included is a note by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe on page 1: "copied from a manuscript in the first Marquis of Tweeddale's handwriting", and an inscription by Sharpe on the verso of the front cover: 'This manuscript of the Tweeddale family formerly belonged to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with his handwriting on the first page and corrected throughout. The tract at the end is entirely in his handwriting'. The additional tract referred to (page 47) is "An observable exercise of a dying Christian 1652...from a ms. in Wodrow's hand".