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‘from him the present life tenant of the Boxwell Estate, the Revd. 
“Osmond Currie Huntley, is lineally descended. The Huntley's 
were connected by marriage with the Throgmortons, of Tortworth, 
-and the Ferrers, of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire. John 
Huntley, the grandson of George Huntley and Constance Ferrers 
espoused the cause of the Parliamentarians in the Civil War, was 
mortally wounded at the siege of Cirencester and was succeeded 
by his Uncle Mathew, who was an officer of Prince Rupert’s 
Horse, and is said to have taken part in most of the great battles 
-of the period, Roundeway Down in 1643, Cropredy Bridge in 
1644, &. &c. After the downfall of the monarchy he retired to 
Boxwell Court, but on the appearance of Charles II. he joined 
the royal army at the battle of Worcester, and on the defeat of 
the army again took refuge at Boswell with his son George and 
son-in-law, Sir John Wynyard. It was during one of the domi- 
ciliary visits to Boxwell Court in search of this determined cavalier 
(i.e. in 1650) that a melancholy event occurred which threw a dark 
shadow over the family, and gave rise to certain stories connected 
with the Court. The wife of Sir John Wynyard, who was at 
‘that time near her confinement, was so frightened at the approach 
of the armed searchers that she and her babe succumbed to a 
premature confinement. The following legend of the Cotteswold 
Hills describes this event :— 
THE LADY CONSTANCE, 
Oh! ask not who that Ladye fair 
Who silent glides the Hall around, 
The chamber and the stair, 
And moves without a sound. 
And ask not whose that gentle Child 
Wrapt in her silken fold, 
Whom, mother still, with aspect mild 
She bosoms from the cold. 
