Of forty-seven items, thirty-two are copies of originals in the National Library, the originals being MS.3813, folio 1, MS.6318, folios 7, 10, Ch.2042-2043, and Adv.MS.54.1.7 (1-8, 10-12, 14-21, 23-30). For Adv.MS.54.1.7, the principal correspondents of which are Mary, Queen of Scots, and John Mure of Rowallan, see a descriptive article by Walter Seton of Abercorn in ‘The Scots Magazine’, August, 1925. The remaining fifteen items, numbered as in the volume, are:

(1-2) Letters under the Signet in favour of Margaret Boyd, 1493 (page 1), and Archibald Boyd, 1509 (page 2);

(6) Dispensation for the marriage of Patrick Ahannay and Margaret Mure, 1531 (page 9);

(7) Royal letter in favour of Mungo Mure, 1534 (page 12);

(12) Testament of Katherine Montgomery, 1554 (page 24);

(18) Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to John Mure, 1568 (page 33);

(23) Letter of John, Lord Hamilton, to John Mure, 1568 (page 39);

(26) Letter of the Archbishop of St Andrews and the Abbot of Arbroath to John Mure, 1570 (page 43);

(32) Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to John Mure, 1571 (page 52);

(37) Letter of John Maxwell, Earl of Morton, to John Mure, 1582 (page 61);

(41) Letter of John, Lord Hamilton, to John Mure, 1586 (page 67);

(43) Letter of the Marquess of Hamilton to William, afterwards Sir William, Mure, 1631 (page 69);

(44) Letter of the Master of Eglinton and of Lord Sempill to Sir William Mure (died 1616), undated (page 70);

(45) Letter of John, Lord Hamilton, to John Mure, ?1569 (page 72);

(47) Letter perhaps of the Countess of Morton to her daughter the Countess of Arran, wife of the Governor, undated (page 74).

Inserted at the beginning of the volume (folio 1) is a letter of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe on the identification of item 47.