The contents are as follows: ‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);

'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);

‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);

Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century (Adv.MS.17.1.14);

Register, ?17th century, of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables (Adv.MS.31.3.17);

‘Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’, 1618 (Adv.MS.31.3.19);

Notes, 1560, on the succession of legendary and early kings of England, from Brutus to Harold (Adv.MS.31.7.9);

Letters, 1782, 1801-1804, to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9) (Adv.MS.33.5.10).