The manuscript was written in a uniform hand in or about the year 1610.

For a transcript of this manuscript see MS.2718.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.35.

The contents are as follows: (i) Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, consisting partly of a translation from the historical works of David Chalmers of Ormond and George Buchanan. Printed by the Maitland Club as ‘A Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland’ (1830), edited by James Whitefoord Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet. (Page 1.)

(ii) Shires and Sheriffs, Nobility, Religious Houses of Scotland. (Page 107.)

(iii) Regents of Scotland. (Page 109.)

(iv) Topography of Scotland. (Page 110.)

(v) Antient names of the families of Scotland. (Page 125.)

(vi) History of the family of Kennedy, often referred to as 'History of the Kennedies'. This text is the basis for Robert Pitcairn's 'Historical and genealogical account of the principal families of the name of Kennedy' (Edinburgh 1830). The manuscript has been collated with Pitcairn’s printed edition by Sir James Ferguson of Kilkerran, and a copy of his collation is kept with the manuscript. See also ‘The authorship of the “History of the Kennedy’s”’ by Sir James Ferguson, Ayrshire Archaeological & Nature History Society Collections, volume vi, page 43. Revised and reprinted in ‘The white hind and other Discoveries’ by James Ferguson (1963). (Page 151.)

(vii) State and Government of Spain. (Page 187.)