Samuel Moody was a seventeenth century English politician. He was christened at Moulton,

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on 31 March 1592. He was an

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by 1644. He was appointed to the First Suffolk Committee for Scandalous Ministers that year. He was later one of the two MPs for

in 1654 and 1656.Samuel MOODY/MODYE ESQUIRE M.P.
/ref> Samuel was born in

Moulton, Suffolk Moulton is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located close to the town of Newmarket, Suffolk, Newmarket. It pre-dates the 1086 Domesday Book and, in 2005, it was estim ...

, the son of George Moody and his wife Margaret Chenery. Moody was one of the commissioners who sat on the

Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers were two committees commissioned by the Earl of Manchester between 24 February and 15 March 1644 in accordance with an ordinance published on 22 January 1644. Manchester had been pressing for authori ...

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