Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
COODE
As described in historical dictionaries
Patronymica Britannica (1860)
COODE. Code was a tenant before the compilation of Domesd. An ancient family long settled at Morval, co. Cornvall, have at various periods written tliemselves Code, Coad, and Coodc. C. S. Gilbert's Cornw. ii. 72.