Contains documents, records and historical details not easily found elsewhere (if at all).

The preface notes that "this work presents a brief (344 pages--RB) but comprehensive view of the affairs of the Kirk from the Reformation in 1560, till the meeting of Parliament after the arrival of Charles the First in Scotland in 1633... The personal share however which the Author had in many of the later transactions recorded in his work, gives it a degree of value which it might not otherwise have possessed."

About half of the book is made up of a second book titled "Certain Record Touching the Estate of the Church in Scotland."

"This work is of a much more limited nature than Scot's Narration; but it may be deemed of greater importance, from its exhibiting, in full detail, by one of the leading sufferers, the whole iniquitous proceedings against those Ministers who were present at the meeting of the General Assembly which had been appointed to be held at Aberdeen in July 1605" (Preface, viii).

Total page count, including both books bound together, equals 666 pages.

Indexed.