Valuation Certificate and Heritage Appraisal

The Bailiwick and Liberty of Ennerdale (A Grant by The King of England and Hanover)

 Heritage and Jurisdictional Valuation Report
(For historical, educational, and institutional reference only — a generalized appraisal of record)

Executive Summary

This valuation assesses the Bailiwick and Liberty of Ennerdale, a historically unparalleled jurisdictional estate and liberty granted and sold in fee simple for cash by His Majesty the King of England and King of Hanover, in conjunction with the Crown’s Commissioners and Parliament circa 1822.

This alienation constitutes one of the final acts in which a royal liberty and forest jurisdiction, complete with Court Leet and regalian franchise powers, was fully transferred from the Crown to a private holder in perpetuity.

Unlike ordinary manorial grants subject to feudal tenure or reversion, the Bailiwick of Ennerdale was alienated outright — free of homage, relief, or service — thereby removing any residual claims of reversion, overlordship, or expiry. The grant was made in perpetuity and is thus legally recognized as a fee simple absolute rather than a conditional fief or franchise held at the King’s pleasure.

By virtue of the King’s dual sovereignty as King of England and King of Hanover, the Bailiwick further assumes the character of an Imperial Free Lordship (Reichs-Freiherrschaft), representing both English liberty and Germanic imperial dignity.

Methodology and Basis of Valuation

Valuation was undertaken by reference to comparable historic assets and sovereign instruments, including:

• Surviving Channel Island fiefs and Bailiwick franchises (bearing partial regalian rights)

• Royal charter corporations and perpetual franchises established by Crown authority

• Heraldic and intellectual property estates with legally recognized seals and arms

• Cultural patrimony assets comparable in rarity and provenance to royal charters or crown relics

All valuations are expressed in U.S. dollars (USD) and assume valid title, enforceable rights, and marketability among qualified institutional or heritage buyers. Minerals, subsurface rights, and raw land values are excluded.

Component Valuations

Aggregate Speculative Valuation

Low Estimate (~$65 million): Recognition primarily as a symbolic and cultural liberty.
High Estimate ($245+ million): Full acceptance of its perpetual franchise, heraldic authority, and dual-monarchical provenance.

Legal and Historical Commentary

• The Bailiwick of Ennerdale is the only recorded instance of a royal forest, liberty, and bailiwick are alienated outright in fee simple by both the King of England and King of Hanover Germany, Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire

• Because the alienation was absolute and perpetual in fee simiple, it is not governed by the limitations of feudal tenure or service. There is no homage, fealty, or expiration clause, and the jurisdiction cannot revert to the Crown.

• This positions the Bailiwick as an independent legal estate in perpetuity, functioning as a private liberty and hereditary jurisdiction equivalent to a special sovereign franchise.

• Its provenance and rights make it a cultural and legal artifact of dual monarchy — one of the rarest known hybrid titles under both common and imperial law. Since Germany outlawed feudal titles, this unique UK/German Title still exists under English Law.

Observations

• The Bailiwick’s alienation places it beyond the ordinary category of feudal barons and manorial lordships.

• Its rights to court leet jurisdiction, seals, and arms create a living continuity of medieval regalian privileges within private ownership. The English and Germanic right to hold and create your own territorial seals, arms and crests is almost unheard of and extremely rare.

• It stands as the “Leonardo da Vinci of all Lordships” — a one-of-a-kind composition of history, law, and sovereignty.

• Such an estate holds intrinsic value to collectors, crypto billionaires, institutions, and scholars of constitutional and feudal history, as well as cultural investors in heritage jurisdictions.

Assumptions & Limitations

Evidence of Chain of Title: The Primary Ennerdale Bailiwick Sale, Deeds, and Chain of Title are substantiated through archival record DLons/W/8/28/12 (Leconfield Archive Collection), which documents a continuous legal history of the Manor and Forest of Ennerdale—including the 1650 Survey, 1703 Court Orders, 1765 Crown Grant to Sir James Lowther, 1769 Wordsworth Enquiry, 1792 Land Revenue replies, and the 1820 formal valuation—culminating in the 1822 Final Sale and Grant in Fee Simple by King George IV of England and Hanover, with Parliamentary sanction via the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods and Forests, conveying all manorial incidents, liberties, franchises, and jurisdictional rights to the Earl of Lonsdale, as further confirmed in Record DLEC/3/11/10/416 (Deed of Sale, 1822) and detailed in Col. R. P. Littledale’s “The Bailiwick or Liberty of Ennerdale, Cumberland,” Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Vol. 31 (1931). 

Conclusion

The Bailiwick and Liberty and Royal Forest of Ennerdale stands as a singular historical and legal estate — a privately held regalian jurisdiction alienated in perpetuity from the dual monarchy of England and Hanover with sanction by the Parliament's Commission.

Its confirmed alienation in fee simple absolute, free from fealty and reversion, elevates it beyond traditional manorial holdings to the level of an imperial free lordship, with enduring jurisdictional, heraldic, and symbolic authority.

On this basis, the speculative aggregate valuation of the Bailiwick of Ennerdale is assessed between USD $65 million and $245+ million, representing both its tangible jurisdictional powers and its incomparable historical provenance.

Prepared by:
Independent Heritage Valuation & Jurisdictional Assets Consultant

** The Bailiwick of Ennerdale possesses a rare and exalted suzerainty, having been granted and alienated directly by the King of England and Hanover with the formal sanction of Parliament and the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods and Forests.
Because this conveyance was made in fee simple absolute, it is free of socage, homage, or any feudal dependence, establishing Ennerdale as a self-contained jurisdictional liberty whose authority flows directly from the sovereign power itself rather than through intermediary tenure — a distinction that elevates it from mere manorial ownership to a true regalian estate exercising suzerain rights in perpetuity. This report is  for heritage valuation purposes only. Figures presume alienation, provenance, and continuity of rights. Valuation Excludes assessment of value of mineral, forestry, or agricultural income potential. Market is limited to a highly specialized audience of heritage, legal, and institutional buyers.