The contents are as follows:

(i) Inn, dinner and horse bills, Scotland and England, 1643-1694, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts of expenses of journeys: 'To London from Yester to Durham', October 1667; to Morpeth and return of Yester, October 1669; of William Sangster, from York to Yester, 1670; of Thomas Duncan, to 'Durntown' and return to Yester, October 1671; of Thomas Manner, to Chillingham and return to Edinburgh, October 1671; to Dunse and return to Yester, September 1672; of Michael Cockburn, from London to Nottingham to meet the Countess of Tweeddale, July 1679; London to Edinburgh, April-May 1695 (folio 122);

(iii) Bills of exchange, chiefly London, 1656-1691 (folio 133);

(iv) Freight bill, May 1667, for goods from Newcastle to Edinburgh (folio 277);

(v) Receipt of payment, 1670, "for fraight & passage for my Lord Tweeddale's man from Scotland to London", (folio 278);

(vi) Bond, 1686, corroborating bills of exchange to James Foulis (folio 279);

(vii) Account, undated, of 'precepts to be drawn upon Mr. Foulis' (folio 281).