the same year he was admitted to Magdalen Church, afterwards known as Greyfriars Kirk. Death and legacy Rollock had repeatedly been in poor health throughout his life, and he was perhaps overworked; he died in Edinburgh on 8 February 1599, aged only 44. On his deathbed, Rollock stated that he wanted the university to remain chiefly a place of spiritual instruction, and that he was strongly opposed to the introduction of professors of law and medicine. He also requested that his former student Henry Charteris would be made his successor, a wish which was granted by the Town Council. David Calderwood, in his 1646 Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, criticises Rollock's perceived weakness towards the king, but admits that he was "a man of good conversation and a powerful preacher". Rollock was considered a scholar of 'great learning', who also effectively discharged the duties of professor and principal of the university in its early days. Rollock was the author of numerous theological works, the majority of them being commentaries or expositions of scripture. He was internationally recognised for his Bible commentaries, and over 40 of his works were printed in Edinburgh, Geneva, Heidelberg and Herborn. His writings on the Epistle to the Ephesians and the Epistle to the Romans won particular praise, with Geneva theologian Theodore Beza stating he had "never read in this kind of interpretation any thing exceeding them in elegance and sound judgement united with brevity". In two works published in 1596/97, Rollock may be one of the first exponents of covenant theology in Britain. Rollock married Helen Barroun, daughter of James Barroun of Kinnaird, around 1587. The couple had a posthumous daughter, Jean, who married Robert Balcanquhal, minister of Tranent. The university commemorates Rollock with a plaque on the south side of Old College, at the entrance to the main university reception. Works Rollock encouraged his students to apply Ramist logic and analysis to their readings of scripture, and he used the same approach in his published works. Rollock's principal works are: Commentarius in Epistolam ad Ephesios, Edinburgh, 1590; Geneva, 1593. Commentarius in Librum Danielis Prophetæ, Edinburgh, 1591; St. Andrews, 1594. Analysis Epistolæ ad Romanos, Edinburgh, 1594. Quæstiones et Responsiones aliquot de Fœdere Dei et de Sacramentis, Edinburgh, 1596. Tractatus de Efficaci Vocatione, Edinburgh, 1597. Commentarius in utramque Epistolam ad Thessalonicenses, et Analysis in Epistolam ad Philemonem, cum Notis Joan. Piscatoris, Edinburgh, 1598; Herborn, in