According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.

The contents of the volume are as follows:

(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)

(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)

(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)

(iv) `Extracts from a Book on the Canon Law Intituled Pupilla Oculi Per Magistrum loannem de Burgo ... compillata Anno a Natali Dominico Millesimo trecentesimo Octuagesimo quinto. Impressa Rothomagi per M.Petrum Olivier. Impensis ... Iohannis Ricardi Anno a Nativitate Domini 1510º ... Partis Nonae Capitulum tertium De Decumis, Primitiis et Oblationibus.` (Page 100.)

(v) `Annent Exchange of Glebelands from Dentons Register of the Diocese of Carlisle`. This Register appears to be unpublished. (Page 112.)

(vi) `Miscellany Notes and Extracts`. (Page 119.)

(vii) `Extracts from Mr [?John] Dentons History of Cumberland written about 1640.` This may be the work, ‘An Accompt of the most considerable Estates and Families in the County of Cumberland from the Conquest unto the beginning of the Reign of K. James the First’. (Page 123).

(viii) Extract from the "Gentleman`s Magazine", volume 5, page 339. (Page 162).