The contents are as follows:

(i) Financial papers, 1669-1712, being chiefly bonds and discharges of and to the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);

(ii) Papers, 1700-1712, of financial transactions between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and his children (folio 56);

(iii) Papers, 1705-1707, of the executry of Andrew Hay, son of Sir John Hay, Lord Clerk Register (folio 74);

(iv) Cypher tables, 1707-1711 (folio 105);

(v) Miscellaneous papers, 1657-1710, undated, including inventories of papers and notes on St. John’s Gospel by the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 137).