The papers include bills for food, liquor, clothes, lodging, etc., (passim); a description of the tumult in Edinburgh of 1596 (folio 7); letters of Sir John Campbell of Lawers, afterwards Earl of Loudoun, 1620 (folio 17), and of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow, 1630 (folio 39); drafts of a letter of Archibald, Lord Douglas, apparently to a French Cardinal, 1653 (folio 43); a memorial regarding a roup of whales at Dundee, with reference to the Duke of Douglas' rights to such fish (folio 60); and an account of the behaviour of Margaret, wife of the Duke of Douglas, 1759 (folio 62).