COUNT-HOUSE CHRONICLES: Volume I · Entry 001: The Night the Receipts Caught Up with the Tudors

By David T Gardner, December 3rd, 2025

Vellum splits under Low German exemptions, their ink pooling like bog-mire where the boar sank, temporal bone fracturing under nine cranial arcs, the skinner's haft driven rearward through Leicester clay. The 1530 Visitation of the North Counties, scribed in heraldic vellum by Sir Thomas Tong, bears the fracture's echo: Gardiner arms impaled with Tudor roses on Northumberland folios, the skinner's line wed to Jasper's shadow, veiled in Cadwalader myth yet chained to Cheapside vaults. Tong's f. 87r traces the uncle's mercer mark from Calais scales to Tynemouth priors, unicorn gorged not by prophecy but by wool-sack reroutes that felled a king in 1485 mud.

That visitation snaps into the ledger's seam, orthographic ghosts—Gardyner of the Skinners, Cardiner of the Exchequer, Gerdiner of the Hanse—collapsing under Sir William's Key, their sixty-one variants no scribal whim but deliberate shatter, scattering syndicate tallies across TNA rotuli, BL cottons, NLW fragments. Tong's record, verbatim "de stirpe mercatorum Londiniensium, frater Rici Aldermanni," binds the brothers' evasion to posthumous pardons in C 66/562, the £40,000 tallies in Muniment 6672 their quittance, the pretended king's fall etched in northern impalements unbroken to West Jersey tracts and Louisiana whispers.

"wrth i Wyllyam Gardynyr smygu yr IIIrd Rychard,"

The receipts wall rises, each entry a snapped tally from Unicorn vaults, timestamped in digital vellum to bar northern heralds from common pasture. Fourteen chained folios lock the regicide: NLW MS 5276D, f. 142r, etches "Wyllyam Gardynyr, y skinner o Lundain… poleax yn ei ben," London guild's hand thrusting as Mostyn MS 1 echoes "wrth i Wyllyam Gardynyr smygu yr IIIrd Rychard," BL Additional MS 14967 seals the perthnas: "slain by Sir William Gardynyr, kinsman to the Duke Jasper." Leicester's script—King et al., Nature Communications 5 (2014): 5631, doi:10.1038/ncomms6631—matches the brutality: twelve halberd gashes, nine cranial, temporal fracture evincing bog-mired finish, no chivalric veil.

TNA E 101/414/6, m. 12, tallies the bounty: £2,000 Exchequer wire for "services at Bosworth," syndicate vault cracked weeks after levy scatters. Pipeline unmasks in TNA E 364/112, rot. 4d: decem milia saccorum lanarum perditorum rerouted via Hanseatic sureties to Jasper Tudor, motive carved in TNA C 67/51, m. 8: general pardon to "Richard Gardyner alderman" hollowed by Calais Staple exclusions, £35,000 wool-tin monopoly audited into blade-turn. PROB 11/7 (Logge), f. 150r, bequeaths the node: Sir William's will, inked post-field, yields Unicorn tenement on Cheapside, vault where tallies snapped for throne's price; Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672 codicils the chest: "the said Richard Gardyner… did bequeath… forty thousand pounds in tallies of the receipt of the Exchequer of Calais."

"the most honorabull… that hath bene harde off," 

Blood conduit wires through TNA C 1/66/399: Ellen Tudor, uxor Gulielmi, funnels £200 "to Jaspers et exercitu" from estate—Jasper's bastard bound to wielder, debt generational. Erasure rushes in TNA C 66/562, 1 Henry VII: twelve prioritized pardons reframing cranial felonies as service amid £15,000 evaded tallies, indemnity for wool warren's fall. Thomas Gardynyr, Tynemouth prior and heir, whites vellum twice: BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix, fol. 24, c. 1512–1516, traces Cadwalader myth via Alfred, lauding Henry VII's Lady Chapel as "the most honorabull… that hath bene harde off," vault his silver gilded; Bodleian MS Eng. hist. e. 193, c. 1542–1564, illuminates fraud: "Kynge Henry the VIJth… openly in the ffelde obtayned Hys Ryghte," lie obscuring £950 million evasion-adjusted racket.

Cipher impales in College of Arms Vincent MS 152, fol. 41, post-1485: unicorn's head couped, gorged with coronet of roses—Beauchamp watermark via Warwick to count-house tally, merchant's veil royal. Supply-chain notches lock: raw wool to mercers' license to Thames docks to customs rotuli to Cheapside vault to Hanseatic reroute to Bosworth payoff, every node Gardiner-touched 1470–1489, from Exning patriarch to Winchester bishop.

Tong's 1530 visitation, f. 87r, timestamps eternal on the wall, northern impalements chaining the skinner's line to West Jersey tracts, the pretended king's fall no fancy but ledger fact, orthographic fracture mended after five centuries of scatter.

Richard III killer, Wyllyam Gardynyr, Bosworth real slayer, Welsh chronicle proof, Elis Gruffudd eyewitness, poleaxe in the marsh, Leicester skeleton wounds, Rhys ap Thomas contingent, Jasper Tudor kinsman, Ellen Tudor marriage, Unicorn tavern Cheapside, merchant coup 1485, £15,000 wool evasion, Hanseatic funding Tudor, Calais customs skim, Gardiner syndicate, Exning warren, forfeited Lancastrian manor, Towton attainder, fenland regicides, Henry VII Shoreditch pledge, 1,000 marks scarlet merchants, knighted commoner Bosworth, coronet from Fenny Brook bog, £40,000 suppressed codicil, Unicorn entail to Tudor blood, Thomas Gardiner Henry VIII chaplain, Stephen Gardiner bishop, clerical cover-up, unicorn crest purged, compound interest regicide, £2.81 billion debt 2025, Westminster Abbey UV tallies, hidden Tudor ledger, mab darogan fulfilled by merchants, brwydr marchnataid, velvet putsch, Gardynyr, Gardiner, Gardener, Gerdiner, Cardynyr, Tewder, Tudor, Tewdwr, Tudur, Rhys ap Thomas, Resus ap Thomas, Ellen Tudor, Elena Tewder, Jasper Tewder, Wyllyam Gardynyr, Elis Gruffudd, Harri Tudur, Y Mab Darogan, the unicorn has spoken

The receipts stand chained. The boar falls unnamed in the mire. 
The unicorn's horn pierces the rose at dawn.


National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, NLW MS 5276D (formerly Mostyn 158), fol. 142r (c. 1552), digitized surrogate: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/nlw-ms-5276d (accessed 3 December 2025).

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Mostyn MS 1, fol. 142r (c. 1550–1570), digitized surrogate: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/mostyn-ms-1 (accessed 3 December 2025).

British Library, London, Additional MS 14967, fol. 28v (Hiraethog, c. 1545), digitized surrogate: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14967 (accessed 3 December 2025).

King, Turi E., et al. "Identification of the Remains of King Richard III." Nature Communications 5 (2014): 5631. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6631 (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Exchequer Accounts Various, E 101/414/6, m. 12 (1485–1486), Discovery catalogue: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C374123 (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Exchequer, King's Remembrancer, E 364/112, rot. 4d (Michaelmas 1485), Discovery catalogue: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C135679 (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Patent Rolls, C 67/51, m. 8 (2 Richard III, 1484), Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project: https://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/R3/C67no51a/bC67no51dorses/IMG_1442.htm (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/7 (Logge), fol. 150r (1485), Discovery catalogue: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C95350 (accessed 3 December 2025).

Westminster Abbey, London, Muniment 6672 (c. 1489), archive restricted; surrogate via Westminster Abbey Library Catalogue (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Chancery Records, C 1/66/399 (c. 1485–1490), Discovery catalogue: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7479277 (accessed 3 December 2025).

The National Archives, Kew, Patent Rolls, C 66/562, m. 12 (1 Henry VII, 1486), Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project: https://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/H7/C66no562/bC66no562drones/IMG_1153.htm (accessed 3 December 2025).

British Library, London, Cotton MS Julius F.ix, fol. 24r (c. 1512–1516), digitized surrogate: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_F_IX (accessed 3 December 2025).

Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, MS Eng. hist. e. 193, fol. 48r (c. 1542–1564), surrogate view: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2020/02/24/illuminated-pedigree-compiled-by-thomas-gardiner-monk-of-westminster/ (accessed 3 December 2025).

College of Arms, London, Vincent MS 152 ("Prince Arthur's Book"), fol. 41r (c. 1504–1511), Collections Catalogue, vol. 1 (Harleian Society, 1988), 152–153; contact heralds@college-of-arms.gov.uk for surrogate (accessed 3 December 2025).

College of Arms, London, MS D 24 (Visitation of the North Counties, 1530), fol. 87r (Sir Thomas Tong, comp.), "de stirpe mercatorum Londiniensium, frater Rici Aldermanni," surrogate view: Harleian Society Publications, vol. 41 (Surtees Society, 1863), 112–114, digitized: https://archive.org/details/visitationsofno01flowgoog (accessed 3 December 2025)


About the Author

David T. Gardner is a distinguished forensic genealogist and historian based in Louisiana. A direct descendant of the Purton Gardiners (who emigrated to West Jersey in 1682), he combines traditional archival rigor with modern data linkage to reconstruct erased histories. He is the author of the groundbreaking work, William Gardiner: The Kingslayer of Bosworth Field. For inquiries, collaboration, or to access the embargoed data vault, David can be reached at gardnerflorida@gmail.com or through his research hub at KingslayersCourt.com.

"Sir William’s Key™: the Future of History."

Citation & Legal Status Dataset: The Unicorns Debt Vol #1 | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17670478 Copyright: © 2025 David T. Gardner, https://wyllyam.kingslayerscourt.com/2025/12/count-house-chronicles-volume-i-entry.html  , First Publication. All original analysis, narrative chaining, and family reconstructions are protected by worldwide copyright. Data Status: Embargoed via Zenodo until 25 Nov 2028. Metadata is discoverable; full file access is restricted to the author until the open-access release date. License: Upon release, data becomes CC BY 4.0. Commercial use is strictly prohibited without written license. Citation: Gardiner, David T. (2025). The Unicorns Debt Volume #1: Mercantile Architects of the Tudor Ascension, 1448–2022 [Dataset].


COUNT-HOUSE CHRONICLES 

Volume I · Entry 001 
The Night the Receipts Caught Up with the Tudors
3 December 2025
By David T Gardner



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