The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period; and at page 162, passages (in red) relating to the execution of Charles I.

An omission of part of a paragraph has been supplied on a strip of paper pasted in at the foot of page 29. Clapperton`s initials are scored on the front cover and his ex libris note is written on the front pastedown, which is quite extensively torn.