The papers include reports of Justiciary Court trials, 1596-1639 - some not in Robert Pitcairn's ‘Criminal Trials’ (Bannatyne Club, 1833) (folio 5); notes of decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 'by my cussine' Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall and by Thomas Veitch, Advocate, 1619-circa 1650 (folio 37); elegies on ministers, seventeenth century (folio 63); and poems, chiefly Royalist and Jacobite (folio 74).