Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jacobites" to "Japan" (part)

part in public affairs, and was kept in the castle of Stirling for

safety's sake amid the confused fighting of the early years of his minority.

The young king was a very weakly boy. It is said that he could not stand without support until he was seven, and although he lived until he was nearly sixty, he was never a strong man. In after life he was a constant and even a re...