The contents are as follows:

(i) Office accounts, 1742-1746, of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale as Secretary of State (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts of Signet fees, 1744-1746, with Thomas Hay of Huntingdon (folio 64);

(iii) Copies of licences for absence, commissions and minutes of meetings of the Lords Justices, 1742-1745 (folio 189).