HELE, John (1626-61), of Easton in Gordano, Som. and Flanchford, Reigate, Surr.

Family and Education

b. c. 3 Mar. 1626, only surv. s. of Nicholas Hele† of Wembury, Devon, and Easton in Gordano, and Dorothy, da. and h. of Edmund Stradling of Easton in Gordano.Sales of Wards ed. Hawkins, 176-7; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 464; Brown, Abstracts of Som. Wills, vi. 50-1. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 21 Oct. 1642;Al. Ox. L. Inn, 23 Oct. 1644; called 23 June 1652.LI Admiss. i. 250; LI Black Bks. ii. 395. m. ?bef. 8 Mar. 1654, Dorothy (d. 1662), da. and coh. of Sir John Hobart*, 2nd bt. of Blickling, Norf., wid. of Sir John Hele of Clifton Maybank, Dorset and of Hugh Rogers* of Cannington, Som. s.p.HMC Lothian, 85; C6/123/84. suc. fa. 27 Dec. 1640.Sales of Wards, 177. d. 25 Jan. 1661.BL, M636/17.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. ?Som. 6 Mar. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650; Surr. Apr. 1659–d.C231/6, pp. 78, 429; HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659, 13 Mar. 1660; assessment, 26 Jan., 17 Feb., 1 June 1660.A. and O.; CJ vii. 845b; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Col. militia ft. Apr. 1660.Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 17 (16–23 Apr. 1660), 270 (E.185.3). Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 10 July 1660–23 Jan. 1661;C181/7, p. 8. poll tax, Surr. 1660.SR.

: Som. and Surr., Flanchford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HELE, John (1626-61), of Easton in Gordano, Som. and Flanchford, Reigate, Surr.

Will

admon. 18 Feb. 1661.PROB 6/37/15.

Estates

at majority, c. Mar. 1647, manor of Easton and land at Portishead, Som., in Mon. and in Cornw., and reversion of land in Warws. after d. of step-mother (who survived him, but perhaps rectory of Nuneaton acquired by purchase bef. 1657);Sales of Wards, 177; W. Dugdale, Antiquities of Warws. (1656), 36. May 1656, purchased for £8,100, manor of Flanchford and other lands in Surrey.13 C6/139/96; Manning, Bray, Surr. i. 306.

Oxford 1644

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