Some of the earliest leaves (16 total) in the volume are entitled "The history of my own life," with items dating from (1648)-1698-1729.

Also in the volume is a key to notes or names (2 leaves); an Accounts of Coin received and paid 1724-1743 (approximately 70 leaves passim); Enories of Cash from 1724-1736 (7 leaves); "Yearly Compositions of Tithes for Great Holland. 1725-1735, 1737-1743" (11 leaves); "Other matters to do with Great Holland tithes, land taxes, leases. 1735-1745" (14 leaves); "The Living of East Mersey (income). 1736-1737" (1 leaf); Thorpe curancy income, 1740; building accounts, including two pages of draft plans from 1725-1741; "An estimate of the Loss...by fire...in my parsonage...at Gt. Holland. (scarcely begun) 1746-1747"; memoranda of things bought and sold from 1723-1729 (1 page); yearly expenses of the house (1 page); and "The order of Master Spencer Compton's Burial [expenses]. June 21, 1741."

Information related to servants includes 5 leaves of agreements to serve, dating from 1743-1753; copies of letters asking mercy for servants from 1751 and 1753 (2 leaves); information regarding servants' wages, perks, and characters from 1726-1753 (3 leaves); "Faults of Coachman 1744" (1 leaf); "'John Brown' arrested by Garrik?" (1 page); and a new order for servants duties (1 page).

Additional items appearing in the volume include verses (1 page); "NB Walpole??" (on reverse of the page of verses); accounts of Compton genealogy (2 leaves); an alphabetical list of sermons or books (5 leaves); addresses and notes about acquaintances (1 leaf); "A terrier of the parsonage of Gr. Holland, Essex. 1681" (1 leaf); acres in Great Holland, 1730; privileges of the clergy (1 leaf); a recipe to make copper like silver (2 pages); copy of a marriage bond (1 page); a catalogue of Roman medals and coins dating from 1719-1735 (2 leaves); and copies of letters asking ordination for a curate from 1754 (1 page).