For the suggested date of the manuscript see folio 283. Sections (xxvi) and (xxxvii) are in different, later hands.

The contents of the manuscript are as follows:

(i) `Regiam Maiestatem`, in 4 books of 41, 75, 37, and 57 chapters with table at the beginning of each book (folio x). Book 4 is in Latin. Folio 47 blank.

(ii) Various laws (folio 48).

(iii) `The Lawis of the burgh` in 120 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 49).

(iv) `The form of the halding of the aire of chalmerlany` in 26 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 66).

(v) `The form and maner of court baroun` in 37 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 71).

(vi) `The Lawis of King Williame` in 14 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 83).

(vii) `Ye Lawis maid be King Alexander` in 36 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 85).

(viii) `Ye statutis maid be King robert ye bruce` in 15 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 89 verso).

(ix) `Ye Statutis of ye Nobill King david the broys` in 17 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 91 verso). Folio 94 verso blank.

(x) `The Lawis of merchis betwix Scotland and Ingland` of 1249 and `Poyntis ... belangand to ye Wardane court` (folio 95).

(xi) `The Lawis of Kyng Malcolm McKynneth` (folio 97). Folios 98 verso, 99 blank.

(xii) `The Lawis and Customys of Schippis` (folio 100). Folios 105 verso, 106 blank.

(xiii) `The manner of battale within listis` (folio 107).

(xiv) Forms of oaths made in Parliament, 1445 (folio 109).

(xv) `Quoniam attachiamenta`, in Latin, in 82 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 110). On folio 129 is a note that the De judicibus and the forest laws, here omitted, are added at the end (sections xxvii and xxviii). Folio 129 verso blank.

(xvi) `Leges marchiarum` of 1249, in Latin, and of 1448 (folio 130). Folios 133-134 blank.

(xvii) `Leges quas fecit Jacobus primus`, 1424-1434, in 145 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 135).

(xviii) `Acta parliamenti Jacobi secundi`, 1437-1457, in 86 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 154).

(xix) `Acta parliamenti Jacobi tertii`, 1466-1487, in 114 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 174). Folio 197 verso blank.

(xx) `Acta parliamenti Jacobi quarti`, 1488-1503, in 122 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 198).

(xxi) `The Actis and constitutionis maid be King James ye fift`, 1535-1540, in 102 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 229). Folio 258 verso blank.

(xxii) `The actis maid anent ye Brynt Annuellis`, 1551 (folio 259).

(xxiii) `Ye actis of parliament maid be marie quene dowrier and regent`, 1555, in 40 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 267). Folio 279 verso blank.

(xxiv) `The contentis of ye articlis of ye pece ... At Edinburgh ye Eight Day of July 1560` (folio 280).

(xxv) `The actis of the last parliament haldin at Edinburgh`, 5 June 1563 (folio 283). Folio 297 blank.

(xxvi) Acts of Parliament, bull of Paul III, tax roll, and rules of procedure concerning the foundation of the College of Justice, 1532-1535 (folio 298). This is written by two different and slightly later hands (changing at folio 323). At the top of folio 305, before the bull, is the couplet `Ecce nouus presidens nouus ordo nouique ministri./Plebs noua strata noua stilus et omne nouum.` Folios 326-344 lost.

(xxvii) `De judicibus`, in Latin, in 167 chapters (169 in the table) with table at the beginning (folio 345).

(xxviii) `Leges forestarum`, in Latin, in 91 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 397). Folio 416 verso blank.

(xxix) `Processus curie purpresture’ in 4 chapters (folio 417).

(xxx) `The process of ye breiff of perambulatioun` in 17 chapters (folio 419).

(xxxi) `The form of maner of halding’ (folio 421 verso).

(xxxii) `Statuta David Broyss regis`, in Latin, in 8 chapters (folio 426 verso).

(xxxiii) `The forme of ye breiff of divisioun` and of `ye precept to proclame ye breiff` (folio 428 verso).

(xxxiv) `The act concernyng ye decess of bastardis and of bastardrie` (folio 429).

(xxxv) `Iter Justiciarie`, in Latin, in 11 chapters (folio 430).

(xxxvi) `The maner of halding of ane Lordis courte` (folio 435). Folios 436 verso, 437 blank.

(xxxvii) Acts of Parliament of James VI, 1578 (8 chapters) and 1579 (3 chapters, incomplete at the end) (folio 438). This is in a different and later hand.