The contents are as follows:

(i) Bills, 1785-1786, for various goods for Lady Hannah Hay [Marchioness of Tweeddale] at Edinburgh (folio 1);

(ii) Bills for various goods from John Croumbie, Haddington, 1788-1799 (folio 13); Robert Paterson, Gifford, 1788-1800, including the gardener's and fowler's orders (folio 20); Midlemas Hay and Co., Dunbar, 1795 (folio 61); James Simpson, Haddington, 1797 (folio 63);

(iii) Bills for provisions from Edinburgh shopkeepers, 1785-1798 (folio 64);

(iv) Bills of William Thorburn, Leith, for tea, 1787-1792 (folio 133);

(v) Bills of Bell and Rannie, wine merchants, Leith, 1787-1792 (folio 143); Robert Howden, brewer, Haddington, 1790-1792 (folio 150); various wine merchants and brewers, 1785-1799 (folio 160);

(vi) Bills of Rachel McQueen, Edinburgh, chiefly for vegetable and fish oil, 1790-1801 (folio 182);

(vii) Accounts and receipts, 1789-1794, of and concerning François Bonnard, cook, Yester (folio 195);

(viii) Bills for coal, 1788-1801 (folio 207);

(ix) Bills for candles, 1788-1798 (folio 223);

(x) Bills of Robert Burton, Haddington, for snuff, tobacco and candles, 1791-1798 (folio 226);

(xi) Bills for soap and toiletries from William Raeburn, Edinburgh, 1790-1799 (folio 230); William Wood, Gifford, 1791-1800 (folio 245); Margaret Hay and Co., ?Haddington, 1795 (folio 263); Henry and William Otto, Dunbar, 1798 (folio 264);

(xii) Bills for household goods: china, 1788-1799 (folio 265); glassware, 1785-1794 (folio 271); hardware, 1784-1801 (folio 288); cooperage, 1788-1794 (folio 313).