Raid of Stirling

At the Raid of Stirling, in 1585, when King James the Sixth, then a youth of nineteen, was pressing forward to the gate, in order to meet the lords who had come to take him, Thomas, master of Glamis, put his foot to the gate, and held the king in. James burst into tears at this rude but prudent and conscientious conduct on the part of his guardian, who sternly observed, “Better that bairns weep, than bearded men.“

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