The contents were as follows: Munekata, Suruga no Kami (governor of Suruga Province), was killed today (around noon) because he conducted an intrigue; You should understand the situation; For this incident, you should make persons in Kyoto, jito (managers and lords of manors) and gokenin (immediate vassals of the Shogunate in the Kamakura) in the western region know that they should not come to Kamakura (the original Chinese passage was converted into this Japanese passage by Shigeo OSOKAWA).
その内容は、「駿河守宗方、陰謀の企て有るにより、今日（午刻）誅されおはんぬ、その旨を存ずべし、かつがつこの事につき、在京人ならびに西国地頭御家人等、参向すべからざるのよし、あひ触れらるべし...」（読み下しは細川重男による）