The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand.

The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s Army in Ireland before the Rebellion began in 1641` (folio 12), and is followed by another version of the beginning of the account (folio 176), all in the same hand.

Letters, 1908, between Sir John Ballinger, Andrew Ross, Solicitor in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and W K Dickson (folios 178-185) are tipped in near the end of the volume.