HELE, Nicholas (c.1583-1640), of Easton in Gordano, Som.

b. c. 1583, 6th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir John Hele† (d.1608) of the I. Temple and Wembury, Devon and Mary, da. and coh. of Ellis Warwick of Holbeton, Devon; bro. of John* and Sir Warwick*.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 464. educ. New Coll., Oxf. June 1601, aged 18, BCL 1607. Al. Ox. m. (1) by 1617, Dorothy, da. and h. of Edmund Stradling of Easton in Gordano, 1s. 2da.; Vivian, 464; PROB 11/111, ff. 208-9; 11/185, f. 45. (2) pre-nuptial settlement 28 Sept. 1633, Mary (admon. 21 May 1667), wid. of John Doughty* (d.1630) of Bristol, Som. s.p. C142/606/75; PROB 11/324, f. 38v; Adams’s Chronicle of Bristol ed. F.F. Fox, 224. d. 27 Dec. 1640. C142/606/75.