Magna Carta, my ancestors

The Magna Carta of 1215

British Library Cotton MS Augustus II 106

The Photo: one of only 4 known copies of the 1215 Magna Carta a charter agreed to by King John of England with his Barons at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. The charter set down for the first time rules governing what the king could and could not do. Two copies are held by the British Library and one each by the cathedrals of Lincoln and Salisbury.

 

My ancestors and the Magna Carta: There is only a very tangential association with any of my ancestors and the Barons who signed the Magna Carta in 1225 and possibly the original in 1215. I was interested in the possible connection because June 15, 2015 was the 800^th anniversary of signing the original document. There is no known list of the original signers, but there is a list of the names of the 25 Barons who were delegated to oversee the terms of the agreement in the copy revised in 1225. In the brief biographies of these men, by Professor Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway, University of London, only two families seem to have any connection with Wales and both were Welsh Marcher Lords: 1) Richard de Clare and Gilbert de Clare, Earls of Hertford and used interchangeably with that of earl of Clare. 2) The younger William Marshal (c. 1190-1231). On his father’s death in 1219 he succeeded him as earl of Pembroke and marshal of England, while on his mother’s death in the following year he succeeded to the lordships of Chepstow in South Wales and Leinster in Ireland.  For Professor Nigel Saul’s brief biographies of the 25 see the article HERE 

Marcher Lords power: From the Wikipedia article ‘Marcher Lord’: “The Anglo-Norman lordships in this area were distinct in several ways: they were geographically compact and jurisdictionally separate one from another, and they had special privileges which separated them from the usual English lordships. Royal writ did not obtain in the Marches: Marcher lords ruled their lands by their own law—sicut regale ("like a king") as Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, stated (Nelson 1966), whereas in England fief-holders were directly accountable to the king. Marcher lords could build castles, a jealously guarded and easily revoked Royal privilege in England. Marcher lords administered laws, waged war, established markets in towns, and maintained their own chanceries that kept their records (which have been completely lost). They had their own deputies, or sheriffs. Sitting in their own courts they had jurisdiction over all cases at law save high treason. "They could establish forests and forest laws, declare and wage war, establish boroughs, and grant extensive charters of liberties. They could confiscate the estates of traitors and felons, and regrant these at will. They could establish and preside over their own petty parliaments and county courts. Finally, they could claim any and every feudal due, aid, grant, and relief" (Nelson 1966, ch. 8), although they did not mint coins. Their one insecurity, if they did not take up arms against the king, was of dying without a legitimate heir, whereupon the title reverted to the Crown in escheat. Welsh law was frequently used in the Marches in preference to English law, and there would sometimes be a dispute as to which code should be used to decide a particular case.” The complete article can be read HERE.

My family appears to have been an offshoot of the Marshal family through an attempt to bring peace with the Welsh nobility by exchanging daughters in marriage the records for which seem to have disappeared in the mists of time. However, in legend an illegitimate son of the Welsh Prince Llewelyn who was helping his father fight the English seems to have been involved in building Blackthorn Castle.

Expressing/evacuating the dome for dive-sex: During the several days interval between the Autumnal Equinox and the total lunar eclipse of the Harvest moon I had the first real opportunity to work with Bryony and Claire and Ashley on their use of a latex flat spring diaphragm for upper reproductive tract protection (flood insurance) to minimize the likelihood of PID not for contraception as they both have stringless GyneFix copper IUDs implanted. Ashley is Jack, Viscount Sandbach’s fiancée, a RB ballerina from a noble family. She was newly preggers at Christmas 2014, but had a miscarriage at 12 weeks while she was still dancing. She was unfamiliar with ballet-sex as well as dive-sex so I’m teaching her along with the Dryads when she is available. The basics are rather simple; it’s just that becoming accustomed to sex while in scuba gear or on pointe being entered from behind with all our muscles clenched can take some getting used to.

Expressing the dome of a flat spring latex diaphragm prior to entering the water for dive-sex will increase the strength of the seal and remove almost all the remaining air in the dome so that stretching the thin highly elastic membrane over the cervix and glans when a partner thrusts in to the anterior fornix doesn’t force air into the uterus. Expressing is quickly and easily done: 1) Insert the diaphragm as usual making certain that it is correctly positioned. 2) Then squat and push down as though having a BM which will push the cervix closer to the entrance to the vagina where the wearer can easily get her fingers into her anterior fornix. 3) Insert two fingers and push the dome into the anterior fornix and all the way to the bottom. You should feel upward pressure on the crevice from the dome stretched tightly over the cervix and the fingers all the way to the bottom of the anterior fornix. If the diaphragm is sealing well the strong vacuum of the seal will cause the dome to cling to the cervix. The same steps can be used to express the air from a silicone diaphragm. However, the domes of silicone diaphragms are not nearly as elastic and so can’t be expressed as completely.

Stud service in the cistern: I pressed Jack, Viscount Sandbach, into service to help partner the Dryads (Bryony and Claire) during dive-sex. It wasn’t difficult to get him interested since Ashley was menstrual and not feeling well and Jack needed an outlet for his sexual needs. So I had him help Nikolai with Bryony and Claire’s dive-sex training in the cistern beneath the undercroft of Crag Abbey. It was only the second time the Dryads had scuba-sex and they felt far more confident that air or water wouldn’t be forced into their uteri since I showed them how to express the air and increase the strength of the seal.

 

 

Night dive-sex and body-doubling

Baker’s Bay Virgin Gorda

The Photo: Looking east from the hills above Baker’s Bay, Virgin Gorda, BVI

Night diving in Lost Cove: The tides usually swing much less than 2 feet so from a depth perspective that’s not a problem. However, the current can be especially at night with an outgoing tide and there is always the danger of getting caught in the outflow of the aquifer which returning readers will remember flows in a trench along the north wall of the cove into the bay. Someone who isn’t careful could be swept out into the bay and well away from land if caught in the aquifer current or an outgoing tide.

Tide concerns: The second low tide on Friday May 22^nd was at 4:04 PM and the following high was at 11:36 PM on the 22^nd.  We will go out around 6:00 PM and the camera crew can film as the sun sets until about 8:00 PM with the actors in only trunks, bikinis and SCUBA. After that the rest of us can play around having night scuba-sex until about midnight. The idea of night diving on an incoming tide is to lessen the likelihood of being accidently swept out into the bay. We will be equipped with buoyancy compensators, emergency strobe lights and electronic beacons in case we get separated or in trouble, but if everything goes well it should be fun.

For comfort and safety I’ve had three 500 lb. concrete mooring blocks with titanium rings in the tops sunk into the sand at a point in the cove that is about 40 feet deep. To the rings are attached cables with clip-on rings every 5 feet held taunt by surface buoys with lights on them.  Couples interested in dive-sex can tether themselves by attaching an ankle leash to a cable ring on the buoy cable and choose a depth. Most chose to go no deeper than 10 or 15 feet as water cools with depth and in trunks and bikinis a couple can chill quickly which affects a man’s performance. Being tethered to the bottom if their minds are distracted by more pleasurable things a couple should be able avoid being swept into the bay.

We had a lovely evening of night dive-sex. It went really well and we had no misadventures. There were 4 of us Marvin (Morning Wood my primary lover and psychiatrist) and a good friend Anya with her lover Paul. Afterward we had a late dinner of steaks as we degassed. It went so well that we are going to do it again tonight as the tides are only about 30 minutes later. As an aside for long time readers of this blog I have been disappointed that there are no dolphins in the cove right now, so cross species sex doesn’t seem likely this trip.

Dive-sex for newbies: Anya is staying with Paul, the Swan Twins’ (Odette and Odile) father who owns the estate adjoining mine on Lost Cove. She and Paul are diving with us and since Paul had never had dive-sex Anya gave him his initial experience which he handled very well according to Anya. He has a large, but not spectacular package knows how to make the most of it in pleasing a partner, is a considerate lover and I think is in love with Anya. He and Anya have been down twice a day when Anya wasn’t being an extra along with the rest of the women in the porn video being shot.

The Gemini, Castor and Pollux, arrived from Vegas two days ago to be with Odette and Odile. They had never had dive-sex in open water so the swan twins are having a wonderful time introducing the boys to a new experience in open water which, given the men’s sexual experience is quite an accomplishment, but then few men have willing women and access to a private cove.  It’s nice having different men here as sex partners. Not that the usual boyfriends aren’t lovely, but variety is the spice of life and I think that’s true for the men as well.

Being totally new to dive-sex or new to having dive-sex in open water the men all take a performance enhancer like Viagra to help ensure they don’t go soft at a critical time in the encounter. And since they haven’t been around many of us much in the last several months I had all the new men take full panel STI tests and test negative as a requirement before joining us. That way not only are we safe, but the guys may have an opportunity to participate as extras in the porn video.  It’s great to have three new men we can enjoy swapping with our regular partners and Marvin doesn’t mind as long as he can watch another man try to fuck my brains out before Marvin tries it himself.

Memorial Day: There has been an increase in tourists in the bay in the last few days which I think is due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. which is the official start of the summer tourist season. There are better deals to be had in the BVIs than in the USVIs so the beach resorts are full and the rented yachts are coming into the cove more often, but that’s not stopped the porn video production. 

Porn video progress: Two of the main actresses got food poisoning from some of the special health foods one of them eats regularly and shared with the other. They have been seriously ill for the last several days and were so sick that they were flown to Charlotte Amalie for treatment where the doctors say it was botulism.  It was unfortunate for them, but gave some of the rest of us an opportunity for larger roles in the video and I’m body doubling the star who has my build and breast size as she is supposed to be a ballerina on holiday with some friends from the company she dances with. Of course it includes scenes of daily ballet classes where the company members on holiday take class in bikinis and pointe shoes and include the mandatory scenes of ballet-sex where the woman is penetrated from behind while en pointe, feet a la seconde, bent over holding on to the barre.

I’m body doubling the ballet-sex scenes since none of the porn actresses can remain en pointe long enough to be taken that way. Close-ups of me inserting a very worn diaphragm – there is a thin spot in the latex dome (caught by the camera) which will develop into a hole leading to the unintended pregnancy of the heroine -  while her partner watches, then changing to a fresh pair of Gaynor hard shanked pointes and doing a few stretches, me positioning myself facing the barre en pointe a la second bending over holding on to the barre with both hands, him spreading my labia and positioning the unprotected tip of his dripping erection at my introits ready to enter me and then penetration as with a single stroke he is all the way into my anterior fornix and out pubic bones hit. I gasp and moan feeling his hard hot wetness fill me and I shudder in delight. It’s a bit of extra thrill to know I’m doing this in front of a camera so thousands of people will pay to see me do what I enjoy most.

Another opportunity arose this morning when a gorgeous 120 ft. sailing yacht entered the bay and anchored. The Director had the camera crew shoot the yacht to use as background filler, but everyone became far more interested when a couple came on deck and had sex on a large air mattress. It’s amazing how sharp the images captured at great distances are when shot with a really good lens and digital technology. It was as though they were across the room as we watched on a large monitor in real-time. Watching the man strip her  then go down on her and finally fuck her senseless with her legs locked around his waist and her nails clawing his back as she screamed during repeated orgasms was some of the best sex I’ve ever seen caught on camera.  The close-ups are amazingly clear and the couple are easily recognizable to anyone who knows them so there will be a bit of digital trickery done to put porn actors faces on the couple when the few minutes to white hot sex is included in the video.