Peter Rollock of Pilton was a Scottish

Scotland

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 lawyer

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. He was the sixth youngest son of Andrew Rollock, laird of Duncrub, Perthshire

Perthshire

Perthshire, officially the County of Perth , is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south...

, and became a student

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 of St Mary's College, St Andrews

St Mary's College, St Andrews

St Mary's College of the University of St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland - in full, the New College of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - was founded in 1538 by Archbishop James Beaton, uncle of Cardinal David Beaton on the site of the pedagogy or St Johns College .St Mary's College was...

 from 1572 until 1575, graduating Master of Arts

Master of Arts (Scotland)

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. He renewed his studies in 1581, probably studying Law

Law

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 in Continental Europe

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 in order to become an Advocate

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.

He was appointed Bishop of Dunkeld

Bishop of Dunkeld

The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th century cleric named Cormac...

, though he exercised few espiscopal duties, the purpose of his appointment being to administer the diocese

Diocese

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 and to be eligible to sit in the Parliament of Scotland

Parliament of Scotland

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. Rollock became a royal judge and councillor, becoming a Lord of Session in 1596. After travelling to England

England

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 with King James VI, now James I of England

James I of England

James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...

, he came back to Scotland in 1605. As King James began reviving episcopacy, Rollock was compelled to give up his bishopric

Diocese

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, and James Nicolson

James Nicolson (bishop)

James Nicolson was Bishop of Dunkeld in 1607. The second son of James Nicolson, He received a grant of a pension of £60 per annum on 6 February 1571, from Robert, Bishop of Caithness, payable from the Priory of St Andrews, "becaus he hes bene twyis schorne of the stane, and is continewallie...

 was appointed in his place in 1607.

Rollock experienced a fluctuating position in the higher echelons of government, losing (1609) and regaining (1610) and then resigning (1620) his place on the bench, and going in (1587) and out (1610) and in again (1616) and then leaving (1625) the Privy Council

Privy council

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. He died in 1632. He married the twice-widowed Christian Cant, but had no children.