It includes:-

i) List of burgesses, indexed, partly before the register, partly after the register

ii) Qualifications of perons to be admitted burgesses by service patrimony and purchase

iii) List of Mayors, 1645-1693 and the number of burgesses admitted in each year 1645-1675

iv) The oaths of the Burgesses, Mayors, Sheriffs, Exchequers, Recorders, Aldermen, Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Chamberlains, and Attorneys.

v) The allegience and supremacy, (under an Act of 1 Will and Mary) of the Sergeant at Mace, Town Clerk, Clerk of the Court of Records and the Common Clerk, 30 Sep 1673 and later.