HELE, Warwick (c.1568-1626), of Wembury, Devon.

Hele, son of the money-lender and heir to his large local estates, sat in one Elizabethan Parliament, when he served on a Commons committee considering arms and armour, 8 Nov. 1597. He died 15 Jan. 1626, leaving in his will a 40s. ring apiece to half a dozen friends ‘and to all the rest that were my followers when I was sheriff of Devon’.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 190, 247, 464; J. Brooking-Rowe, Hist. Plympton Erle, 70; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 657; C142/423/80; D’Ewes, 553; PCC 1 Hele.