The items appear to have been collected for George Chalmers (a letter to whom, 1798, is at folio 17) as materials for his ‘Caledonia’, the first volume of which was published in 1807. The descriptions of parishes at folios 1-10, 11-16, 19-50 verso, are taken from Adv.MS.35.3.12(i), pages 81-90, 291-299 and 310-340 respectively, and at folios 50 verso-61 from Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii), pages 259-270. `The Geography of Moray` is unidentified; it appears to have been written in the latter half of the eighteenth century (1768 is mentioned at folio 72), but it does not appear to be part of Lachlan Shaw`s ‘History of Moray’ (published 1775). These sheets were bound together in or about 1809 (the date of the watermark of the flyleaves). There are marginalia in an unidentified, possibly contemporary hand at folios 71, 78, 81-82.