Family and Education
b. betw. 1586/1600, 2nd s. of George Moody (d. 1607) of Moulton, Suff. and his 1st. w. Margaret.Vis. Suff. 1664-8 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 9; ‘Moody of Suff. and America’, E. Anglian, n.s. ii (1887-8), 38; PROB11/110/420; Gen. Gleanings in Eng. ed. H.F. Waters (Boston, 1901), i. 97. educ. appr. Drapers’ Co. 1618.Drapers’ Co. ed. Boyd, 128. m. by 1616, Mary, da. of John Boldero of Bury St Edmunds, 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 5da.Vis. Suff. 1664-8, 9; ‘Moody of Suff. and America’, 38-9; Gen. Gleanings ed. Waters, i. 97. suc. bro. George 1652.PROB11/221/42. d. bef. 28 June 1658.PROB11/281/306.
Offices Held

Civic: chief burgess, Bury St Edmunds ?by Mar. 1628–d.;Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, ff. 1–18, 24v. jt. chamberlain, Mar. 1628–?Mar. 1629;Suff. RO (Bury), D11/1/1(7). feoffee, Guildhall feoffment trust by July 1640 – d.; recvr. 1646-aft. Mar. 1647;Suff. RO (Bury), H2/6/2/1, p. 64. alderman by Jan. 1644-c.Nov. 1644, 1651;SP28/243: warrants from Suff. co. cttee. Jan.-Nov. 1644; Suff. RO (Bury), D7/6/3; A. and O.; Suff. ed. Everitt, 90; Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, f. 24v. trustee, Almoners’ Barns by 1652–d.Suff. RO (Bury), D10/4/2; D7/1/2; D10/3.

Local: commr. loans on Propositions, Bury St Edmunds 28 July 1642;LJ v. 245b. recvr. 10 Sept. 1642.LJ v. 346b. Member, Suff. co. cttee. 1642–d.Suff. ed. Everitt, 137. Commr. assessment, Bury St Edmunds 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Suff. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sequestration, Bury St Edmunds 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643; Eastern Assoc. 20 Sept. 1643. Nov. 1643 – Feb. 1644A. and O. Treas. Suff.; jt.-treas. and recvr.-gen. Feb. 1644-aft. Nov. 1644.SP28/176: acct. of Samuel Moody, Nov. 1643-Jan. 1644; Suff. ed. Everitt, 67. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Mar. 1644-aft. Jan. 1645;Suff. Cttees. for Scandalous Ministers ed. Holmes, 25. New Model ordinance, Bury St Edmunds 17 Feb. 1645; militia, Suff. 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655.A. and O; SP25/76A, f. 15v. J.p. 8 Mar. 1650–d.C231/6, p. 180. Commr. high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 10 Dec. 1650. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Suff. 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. securing peace of commonwealth by 20 Nov. 1655;TSP, iv. 225, 271–2, 427–8. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). sewers, 26 June 1658 (?posth.).C181/6, p. 294.

Religious: elder, eleventh Suff. classis, 5 Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

Central: sub-commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 28 June 1653.CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 447. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

: of Bury St Edmunds and Suff., Moulton.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

MOODY, Samuel (d. 1658), of Bury St Edmunds and Moulton, Suff.

Will
18 Feb. 1658, pr. 28 June 1658.PROB11/281/306.
Estates
house and shop, Bury St Edmunds; lands (40 acres), Gaywood, Norf.; lands in Ire.; inherited lands at Moulton, Suff. 1652-4.PROB11/281/306.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
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