English: St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury, Bovey Tracey, Devon - Monument to Elizeus Hele (d.1636) of Parke (now HQ of Dartmoor National Park) in the parish of Bovey Tracey. Elize Hele or Elizeus Hele (1560–1635) of Fardell was a lawyer and philanthropist. In 1632, Hele transferred his lands into a trust that was intended for "pious uses". The trustees included his wife, John Hele and a number of trusted friends. The trust was used to create a number of schools in Devon including Hele's School at Exeter. He is buried in Exeter, his son Walter was buried in Bovey Tracey where there is an elaborate monument in the parish church to Elize... St. Lawrence Clyst, of old time in the Valletorts, one of the estates which Elize Hele bequeathed to charitable purposes... Quaint as many of the surroundings of Plympton Erle still are, chief interest centres in the comparatively modern and modernized Grammar School. Founded from the bequest of the great educational benefactor of Devon, Elize, or Elizeus, Hele, and erected in 1644.... The parish of Brixton's chief claim to notice here is as the residence of that most worthy member of the wide-spreading family of Hele Elize Hele, of Wollaton, who bequeathed in 1635 the manor of Brixton Reigny and all his estates to charitable uses, and thus became the great school

founder of his native county....Copy lease, Elize Hele of Parke, Bovey Tracey, Esq, 12th August 1618, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.

Heraldry:

• Centre: Gules, five fusils in bend argent on each an ermine spot (Hele)
• Dexter: Azure, a lion rampant between an orle of escallops or (Hender), for his first wife Mary Hender, a daughter and co-heiress of John Hender of Bottreaux Castle, Cornwall. Arms granted by Cooke, Clarencieux Garter King of Arms (per Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.3, Cornwall, Extrinct Gentry[1]
• Sinister: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs erased sable (Bray) (with A crescent argent for difference) for his 2nd wife Alice Bray, a daughter of Reginald Bray of Northamptonshire (probably a relative of Sir Reginald Bray KG (c. 1440 – 24 June 1503), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Henry VII (same arms)), and widow of Nicholas Eveleigh (1562-1618), whose monument survives in the same church (St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury, Bovey Tracey).