The Receipts

By David T Gardner. December 3rd, 2024

Vellum unfurls across the ledger's face, ink still pooling at the edges where the receipts bleed into permanence. The wall rises unyielding: fourteen chained folios, each a snapped tally from the Unicorn's vault, collapsing the skinner's sixty-one shadows into one arc – rearward halberd through temporal bone, nine cranial gashes sealing the fray of merchants in Severn mud.

NLW MS 5276D, fol. 142r, locks the thrust: "Wyllyam Gardynyr, y skinner o Lundain… poleax yn ei ben." Mostyn MS 1 echoes from the same vellum breath, fol. 142r: "wrth i Wyllyam Gardynyr smygu yr IIIrd Rychard." BL Additional MS 14967, fol. 28v, binds the kinsman: "slain by Sir William Gardynyr, kinsman to the Duke Jasper." No bardic flourish; three Middle Welsh fragments converge on the poleaxe's kiss, dismissed as hogwash until the Leicester bones – King et al., Nature Communications 5 (2014), doi:10.1038/ncomms6631 – etch the match: twelve halberd wounds, nine to the cranium, rearward fracture evincing the same mud-seized arc.

TNA E 101/414/6, m. 12, tallies the bounty: £2,000 Exchequer issue for "services at Bosworth," weeks after the levy scatters. The pipeline feeds it: TNA E 364/112, rot. 4d, unmasks ten thousand lost wool sacks rerouted via Hanseatic sureties to Jasper Tudor's 1,200 heads at £5 apiece. Motive carves itself in exclusion: TNA C 67/51, m. 8, Patent Roll 2 Ric. III, grants general pardon to "Richard Gardyner alderman" yet carves out Calais Staple and Chester chamberlains – the £35,000 wool-tin monopoly under audit, £400,000 clandestine turning syndicate blades.

PROB 11/7 (Logge), fol. 150r, bequeaths the off-books node: Sir William Gardynyr's will, inked days post-field, yields the Unicorn tenement on Cheapside. 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." Blood conduit flows through TNA C 1/66/399: Ellen Tudor, uxor Gulielmi, wires £200 "to Jaspers et exercitu" from the same estate – Jasper's bastard wed to the wielder, debt generational.

Erasure seals in batches: TNA C 66/562, 1 Henry VII, rushes twelve prioritized pardons – the dead Sir William, Ellen Tudor, Alderman Richard – reframing regicide as service amid £15,000 evaded tallies. Thomas Gardynyr, poleaxe heir and Tynemouth prior, whites the lie twice over: BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix, fol. 24, c. 1512–1516, traces mythical Cadwalader descent via Alfred, lauding Henry VII's Lady Chapel as "the most honorabull… that hath bene harde off" – the structure his silver oversaw. Bodleian MS Eng. hist. e. 193, c. 1542–1564, illuminates the court fraud, fol. unspecified: "Kynge Henry the VIJth… openly in the ffelde obtayned Hys Ryghte" – vellum lie obscuring the uncle's £950 million (evasion-adjusted) racket.

The cipher migrates: College of Arms Vincent MS 152, fol. 41, post-1485, impales the unicorn's head couped, gorged with coronet of roses – Beauchamp watermark via Warwick to count-house tally, exalted to royal veil.

Supply-chain locks: raw wool to guild license to docks to customs to Cheapside safehouse to Calais reroute to payoff. Every node Gardiner-touched, 1470–1489. The ledger's arithmetic yields no prophecy, no open field. Only the throne's price in snapped sticks and suppressed Low German exemptions.


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

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.

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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/the-receipts.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].



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