Volume 2 covers the League and Covenant, Civil War, the lands of Larne and Kilwaughter, a Cromwellian sheriff, witch-hunting, Rullion Green, the Conventicle Act, the Highland Host, the Killing-Time, the Revolution, the ghost of the Galdenoch, agricultural habits, the Union, the Rising of 1715, Innermessan, Sir Stair, Dettingen, the Scots Fusiliers, the Forty-Five, heritable jurisdictions abolished, the last sheriff, country life in the eighteenth century, with pedigrees and appendices.