A school ballad, "The Woeful Slaying of Bailie Macmoran", was founded on a school siege of 1595 known as the great barring-out. This turbulent history continues to inspire new work. "Gentlemen’s Bairns" is a play by C. S. Lincoln which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006. It dramatises the fatal shooting during the siege of a chief magistrate, John Macmoran, by a pupil, William Sinclair, a grandson of the Earl of Caithness. This incident is also taught as part of first year History curriculum.