Background
Baptised at Street Petrock"s Church, Exeter, 19 September 1562, he was the eldest son of Nicholas Martyn of Exeter, by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Lennard Yeo of Hatherleigh.
Baptised at Street Petrock"s Church, Exeter, 19 September 1562, he was the eldest son of Nicholas Martyn of Exeter, by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Lennard Yeo of Hatherleigh.
Having been sent to Exeter grammar school, he matriculated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, in the autumn of 1581. Martyn was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1589, and from 1605 to 1617 held the office of recorder of Exeter. On 7 April 1617 he died at Exeter, and was buried in Saint Petrock"s Church on 12 April, with an inscription placed to his memory.
She was buried at All Hallows, Goldsmith Street, Exeter, on 30 January 1605-1606.
The eldest son Nicholas Martyn succeeded to his father"s estate of Oxton in Kenton.