Among the contents of the volume are: lists of events in the reigns of the Kings of Scotland (written on paper watermarked 1800-1802) (folio 1), notes on the Earls of Caithness (folio 66), Sinclairs (written on paper watermarked 1797-1798) (folio 86), the Earldom of Carrick (folio 127), Boyles of Kelburne (written on paper watermarked 1800) (folio 129), Lords of the Isles and Macdonells of Glengarry (written on paper watermarked 1803) (folio 132), Polydore Vergil (folio 139), Thomas Dempster (written on paper watermarked 1794-1797) (folio 143), 17th-century Scotsmen (folio 153), and Charles Smith, the writer on the corn-trade (written on paper watermarked 1801) (folio 172).