[1] He was a native of Dunkeld, Perthshire, and is said to have been educated at the University of Oxford.
A James Martin, whose college is not mentioned, commenced M.A.
[2] Martin wrote a 1577 treatise in refutation of some of Aristotle's dogmas in Generation of Animals.
[1][2] Other treatises by Martin are vaguely mentioned by Thomas Tanner in his Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1718), viz.
In Libros Aristotelis de Ortu et Interitu, Paris, 1555.