John Godbolt or Godbold (c. 1582 – 3 August 1648) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
He was at school at Worlingworth, Suffolk and admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 29 June 1599 aged 17.
[3] Godbolt was Judge at the Bury St Edmunds assizes in 1645 for the trial of alleged witches of whom two men and sixteen women were sentenced to death and 120 suspects were kept in gaol.
[5] The sessions were adjourned because of the approach of Royalist forces, but subsequently another fifty were hanged as witches.
[6] Godbolt was made Justice of the Common Pleas in 1647.