The volume contains lists of:
- Applications for letters of recommendation, annotated 'mostly complied with' (folio 1);
- Miscellaneous applications (folio 12);
- Applications, 18 September 1807 (folio 14).
- The Admiralty (folio 26);
- The army (folio 28);
- The colonies (folio 29v);
- The Revenue (England), etc. (folio 30);
- Scotland (folio 32).
- Cadets, assistant-surgeons and writers (folio 40);
- Writers, 31 December 1801 (folio 100);
- Cadets (folio 106);
- Assistant-surgeons (folio 110).
- List of East India patronage (folio 114);
- List of other applications (folio 131).