IN RE.

THE KINGDOM OF MAN AND THE ISLES

Barristers Opinion
3rd April 2007

Pratchetts Solicitors, Peterborough

ADVICE

1. In this matter I am instructed on behalf of Mr Howe ... Mr Howe has had a notice
published in the London Gazette ...

Note: The notice in the London Gazette has gone unchallenged and is therefore duly
served. It is interesting to note that before the notice was published it was passed up to the
Queen of Englands desk where it sat for four weeks until it was finally granted approval
to be published. David Drew Howe was duly crowned The King of Mann Saturday 31st
March 2007. Long live the King.

3. ... in 1406 a fresh grant was made to Sir John Stanley and his heirs, later the Earls of
Derby. ... because sovereignty over the island was, according to the Privy Council, in the
gift of the King of England in any event, the grant to Sir John was upheld, see 4 Co
Inst 282, commenting on The Case of the Derby Succession (1598) MLR 2.

5. ... According to Coke, who, as Attorney General of England, appeared in the Derby
Succession case, the effect of the 1406 grant was that title to the [kingdom] passed to
Sir John Stanleys heirs general rather than to his heirs male. ...

7. The point is made that Thomas ceased to style himself King of Mann and adopted the
title Lord of Mann. This had no effect on [royal] status; the nature of [royal]
sovereignty did not change, merely its description. It does not mean that the kingship of
Mann is in abeyance, nor that [the Kingdoms] rights as King (or Lord) of Mann became
extinguished. It means simply that the hereditary ruler of [the Isle of] Man, no doubt for
political reasons and in order to reflect the suzerainty of the King of England, chose to
 adopt a more modest title. ... as the Lieutenant Governor, Sir James Gell, thought proper
in 1901, it would neither enhance nor diminish [royal] sovereignty over the island.

8. Whether Mr Howe is lawfully King of [the Isle of] Man ... the terms of the Act of
Revestment 1765... has the effect of making the Queen unequivocally Lord of Mann.

Note: Lord of Mann being feudal (once based on land) in nature, therefore
whilst the sovereign of the United Kingdom is by hereditary means Lord of Mann they
are not Queen or King of Mann. A King or Queen out-ranks a feudal Lord.

9. ... the Manx Courts have followed the memorandum of Sir James Gell, then Attorney
General of the Isle of Man, given in 1876 as a definitive guide to the constitutional status
of the island ...

14. ...

Note: Whilst the United Kingdom and Manx courts would side with the Crown of
England... out of loyalty to the Crown of England, and they would not concede any actual
authority [over the Isle of Man as a territory] to the rightful King of Mann... this does not
take away the Kings right of ancestral inheritance, as De Jure King of Mann... De
Jure is an expression that means "based on law", thus allowing the De Jure King of
Mann ancestral incorporeal hereditament rights to Grant Titles of Nobility in a
peaceable and lawful way.

In the same way that French Titles are sold by Burkes Peerage as Lawful property
even though France is now a Republic; such transactions are deemed peaceable and
lawful as no intent to defraud is committed, and they are sold as bygone titles of
historical worth. The De jure King of Man grants Titles of Nobility to preserve his
ancestral heritage of the Kingdom of the Isle of Man.

Pratchetts Solicitors, Peterborough