The fourth son of Osbert Moundeford and his wife Bridget, daughter of Sir John Spelman of Narborough, Norfolk, he was born at Feltwell.
[2] Among his patients in the 1590s was Mary Glover, who became prominent as a supposed victim of demonic possession; Moundeford took her condition to be natural.
[4] The matter went to a celebrated trial, of Elizabeth Jackson accused of bewitching Glover, that divided the College, Francis Herring testifying for the prosecution case.
[5] Edward Jorden and John Argent supported the defence; but they lost the argument, with Moundeford apparently weighed on the other side.
[7] Taking her side, or at least advocating for more sympathetic treatment, he suffered brief imprisonment at the time she was planning to escape to France.
[3] In 1599 Moundeford published a translation of a French work by André Du Laurens into Latin, as De morbis melancholicis Tractatus.
[11] Moundeford published in 1622 a small book entitled Vir Bonus, a summary of what experience had taught him.
Moundeford's Vir Bonus showed him to be an admirer of Theodore Beza,[1][3][13] They had two sons: Osbert, admitted a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, on 25 August 1601, aged 16; and Richard, admitted a scholar of the same college on 25 August 1603.