While little is known of the life of Roland MacIlmaine, he figures prominently in the development of English Ramism because his was the first translation of the Ramist dialectic into English. Just two years after the Huguenot reformer Petrus Ramus (Pierre de La Ramée) perished in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on 26 August 1572, MacIlmaine published The Logike of the Moste Excellent Philosopher P. Ramus Martyr, Newly Translated, and in Divers Places Corrected, after the Mynde of the Author (1574). Earlier that year he had published a Latin edition of Ramus's dialectic under the title P. Ramii Regii Professoris Dialecticae libri duo, exemplis omnium artium et scientiarum illustrati, no solum divinis, sed etiam mysticis, mathematicis, physicis, medicis, juridicis, poëticis, et oratoriis (Dialectic in Two Books by the Regius Professor Peter Ramus, Elucidated with Examples from All the Arts and Sciences, Not Only for Divines but Also...