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The various, what I'm calling, "Western English" Moody families are found in southern Gloucester and (mostly) Northern Wiltshire. These include a) the Chalford estate (Bisley, Bisley, Gloucester) Moody's - John and his son Edmund, fl. between 1469-1488. b) A John Moody at [Kingswood] Grange between Charlton & Tetbury (Tetbury, Longtree, Gloucester) who fl. 1544 (who perhaps might actualy be one of the John's from the Foxley Manor Moody's). c) The Moody family of Foxley Manor, (Foxley, Mamlesbury, Wiltshire as well as land at Chedglow, Crudwell, Mamlesbury, Wiltshire) - starting with John (fl. 1485) who may of originally been from Eldersfield, Worcestershire ; and continuing in direct line Edmund (d. 1509) who married an Elizabeth (might this John and Edmund father son be the same individuals as the Chalford Moody's?); John (d. 1549) ; & John (fl. 1586). and also d) the Garsdon line leading to the Moody Baronets of the manors of Garsdon, Lea and Cleverton, & Whitchurch-cum-Milbourne (all three in Mamlesbury Hundred of Wiltshire), namely (in direct line again) - Richard (fl. 1540s, d. 1550) who married a Catherine; Richard (d. 1612); Sir Henry Moody Knt. (Sheriff of Wiltshire 1618-9, M.P. 1625-6 & 1628-9, Made a Baronet in 1622) who's wife Deborah Dunch would later be known as "Dame/Lady Moody" of Gravesend, Long Island NY fame; and Sir Henry II, the 2nd & last Moody Baronet. If examined in the order I've listed them here, the power-base of each line is perhaps at most 5 miles distant (often less) from that of the preceeding one, indicating they are likely related. Then there is also a later (18th Century to 1911) line of prominent Moody's further south within Wiltshire (Manors of Great Bathampton & Hanging Langford of Steeple Langford, Branch and Dole Hundred, and also landholdings in Chicksgrove & Apshill of Tisbury, Dunworth Hundred) starting with a William (fl. 1764, d. 1774) possibly the same individual as William Moody a clothier in Wilton who was one of the one's to help start the Wilton Carpet industry in 1741; William (fl 1795, d. 1798); Reverend William Moody (d. 1827) rector of Little Langford (1798-1827) and Wylye (1792-1801) church's; Henry (d. 1827) who married a Felicia (she died 1888); & Henrietta (d. 1911). (Source's: the respective entries in the VCH books for Gloucester & Wiltshire)
""The ARMS and CREST of Edmund Moodye otherwise Moody of Bury St. Edmunds in the County of Suffolk, A Gentleman, granted by letters patent under the hand and seal of THOMAS HAWLEY, CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMS on the sixth day of October 1541 in the thirty second year of His Majesty KING HENRY VIII for miraculously saving his life at Hitchin, County of Herts, when leaping over a ditch with a pole which brake; that if the said Edmund, a footman in the King's retinue, had not leapt into ye water and lifted up the King's head, he had drowned; for which he was rewarded. "The Reward of Valor"
"If Will Somers had dared, he could probably have made his audience see the comic aspects of an accident that befell the King in 1525. But in fact this was no laughing matter, for, once again, Henry was nearly killed. When he was "following of his hawk" near Hitchin, he tried to pole-vault over a ditch, but the pole snapped and he landed headfirst in the muddy water. Stuck fast in the clay, he would have drowned had it not been for a footman, Edmund Mody, who leapt into the stream and hauled him out. This accident (or the one in the tiltyard a year before) might have accounted for the headaches he suffered later on, but its immediate effect was to bring home to the king, more forcibly than ever, the fact that the problem of the succession must be solved as a matter of urgency."
"In this yere the kyng folowyng of his hauke, lept over a diche beside Hychyn, with a polle and the polle brake, so that if one Edmond Mody, a foteman, had not lept into the water, and lift up his hed, whiche was fast in the clay, he had drowned: but God of his goodness preserved him."
'Richard purchased land in Moulton in 1572, acquiring a considerable landed estate in Western Suffolk and lived in a house called Fryette's in Moulton, which he bought from the executors of Roger Fryette. He owned a flock of 400 sheep at Isleham, Cambridgeshire'.
