The contents are as follows:

(i) Account, 1715, of funeral expenses for the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);

(ii) Servants' and factors' accounts, 1716-1734 (folio 3);

(iii) Accounts, 1716-1722, for the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, and for Lords James and Charles Hay, (folio 43);

(iv) Scottish inn and horse bills, 1716, 1722 (folio 48);

(v) London bills of exchange, 1729 (folio 70);

(vi) Bills, 1719-1736, for various goods from Edinburgh and East Lothian tradesmen (folio 74);

(vii) Accounts, 1717-1723, of Isobel Spence for the purchase of various goods (folio 98);

(viii) Bills, 1719-1736, for provisions from Edinburgh and East Lothian tradesmen (folio 110);

(ix) Wine bills, 1719-1730 (folio 138);

(x) Bills, 1719-1732, for coal, candles, soap, starch and indigo (folio 143);

(xi) Bills, 1721, from Dr Lundie, surgeon (folio 154);

(xii) Bills, 1729-1733, from Adam Drummond, surgeon, to the Marquess of Clydesdale [later 6th Duke of Hamilton] (folio 155).