The contents are as follows:

(i) Bills of Edinburgh tailors: Alexander Home, 1673-1687 (folio 1); various tailors, shirtmakers, sempstresses, etc., 1670-1697, undated (folio 27);

(ii) Bills of Edinburgh and Haddington shoemakers, 1670-1687 (folio 58), with bills for Lady Anne Hay, 1681-1688 (folio 89), William and Lady Jean Hay, 1685-1686 (folio 93);

(iii) Bills of Edinburgh tradesmen: James Brome, hatter, 1671-1678 (folio 95); William Ferrier, beltmaker, 1685-1686 (folio 98); Robert Newlands, glover, 1672-1685 (folio 99); Robert Cheyn, wigmaker, to William Hay, 1696 (folio 106); Margaret Fletcher (Mrs John Douglas), washer, 1676 (folio 107);

(iv) Bills of John Eliot, 1678-1680, and Alexander Edgar, 1685-1686, surgeons, Haddington (folio 120);

(v) Bills of Edinburgh tradesman: David Murie and Mungo Cleland, armourers, 1672-1673 (folio 123); Joshua Sochone, 1672, and John Simson, 1679-1686, gunsmiths (folio 126); Andrew Forrester, bowmaker, 1687 (folio 133); various goldsmiths, 1673-1687 (folio 134); Thomas Inglis, pewterer, 1704-1707 (folio 138); George Main, jeweller, 1711-1712, including a bill for Lady Anne Hay (folio 139);

(vi) Bill, 1706, of James Moor, basketmaker, Haddington (folio 141);

(vii) Receipt, 1687, by David Paton, Edinburgh, of payment 'for pictures received by me' (folio 142);

(viii) Bills, 1676-1680, of Thomas Crichton, merchant, Edinburgh, chiefly for stationery (folio 143);

(ix) Accounts, 1676-1680, with Ninian Whyte, under-butler, Yester, chiefly for stationery (folio 146);

(x) Bills, 1671-1686, of Edinburgh booksellers (folio 150);

(xi) Accounts, 1684-1701, undated, of postage expenses (folio 170);

(xii) Bills for horse and coach expenses: Bartholomew Gibson, farrier, 1680-1687, undated (folio 175); saddlers; 1670-1705, chiefly George Childers, Edinburgh, David Denoon, Edinburgh, and William Hay, Haddington (folio 179); stablers, 1669-1688, chiefly William Middlemas and Alexander Scott, Edinburgh (folio 202); Edward Morse, coach-maker, Edinburgh, 1670-1680; William Adam, Edinburgh, 1677-1678, for coach hire (folio 237);

(xiii) Bills of carriers, 1680-1713 (folio 245).