The contents of the volume are as follows.
(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)
(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.
(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the haill shyres in the Kingdome or the Retoured dewtie of the haill shyres`. (Page 127.)
(iii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xiii): `Note of prices at ye Chancery office.` (Page 202.)
(iv) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xiv): `Note of the soumes due to my lord lyon, with his heraulds pursevants and to the Kings trumpets for new creationes, and to the Macers.` (Page 205.)
(v) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xv): `Abreviat of his Maties proper and constant rent ... Collected ... by Sir Wm Purves of Woodhouslie ... in anno 1667’. (Page 205.)
(vi) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(ii): `The Roole or Sea Lawes of Oleron.` (Page 334.)
(vii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(iii): `The old and ancient Gothish Sea Lawes made at Wisbuy`. (Page 355.)
(viii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(iv): `A Treatise concerning averidge Written originallie in Dutch by Quijntyn Weytsen Counseller to the King of Spain in the Court of Holland.` (Page 377.)
(ix) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(v): `The Jurisdiction off the Admiralitie off France Both in tyme off peace and warre.` (Page 399.)
(x) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(vi) `A declaratione of the King off France [Louis XIV] for regulating Navigatione Equipping off Ships and Concerning prizes`, 1 February 1650, with Acts of the Council of State on the same subject till 1670. (Page 422.)
(xi) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(vii): `Ane placaet or ordinance concerning Sea Lawes made by His Imperiall Majestie Charles the 5th and published [19 July] anno dom. 1551.` (Page 446.)
(xii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(viii): `Ane placca or ordinance concerning the riging out off Ships Concerning Sea Lawes and Concerning assurances Made by Philip [II] King of Spain and published [31 October] anno dom. 1563.` (Page 462.)
(xiii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(ix): `The Customs of Amsterdam Concerning assurances`. (Page 514.)
(xiv) `Note of the Shore Dues at the Port of Leith payable to the City of Edinburgh by virtue of Grants from the Crown,` excerpted from documents in the city charter-chest. In the same hand as sections (ii)-(xii). (Page 528.)
(xv) Index to the volume. (Page 536.)
