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Bibliography
This bibliography encompasses the full scope of our groundbreaking study, William Gardiner: The Kingslayer of Bosworth Field, which redefines the Battle of Bosworth (1485) as a merchant-driven coup orchestrated by the Gardiner family. Our history-making discovery challenges 540 years of noble-centric narratives, revealing William Gardiner as Richard III’s killer, Richard Gardiner as the financial architect of Henry VII’s rise, and Ellen Tudor as a key link in the Gardiner-Tudor alliance. Supported by 300 citations, our research draws on an extensive range of primary sources from The National Archives (UK), the British Library, the Guildhall Library, and the National Library of Wales, alongside secondary sources, genealogical records, and digital resources. These references underpin our core claims: the economic machinery behind the coup, the agency of commoners and women in medieval politics, and the social and economic implications of the Gardiner family’s actions. This enhanced bibliography has been meticulously verified and expanded to include all 300 citations, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and academic rigor for scholars exploring the intersections of trade, family, and power in late medieval England.

Printed Primary Sources

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  • Gibson, William Sidney. 1849. A Descriptive and Historical Guide to Tynemouth, with Notices of North Shields, Seaton Delaval, and Neighbouring Antiquities. Newcastle: T. Fordyce. Available at: British Library.
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  • Mullinger, James Bass. 1888. A History of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at: British Library.
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  • Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. 2013. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, vols. 1–5. Salt Lake City: Douglas Richardson. ISBN: 1460992709.
  • Richardson, W.C. 1952. Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485–1547. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Roberts, B.F. 2004. “Gruffydd, Elis.” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: Oxford DNB.
  • Smyly, J. Gilbart. 1922. “Thomas Gardiner’s History of England.” Hermathena 19 (43): 235–248. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin. Available at: JSTOR.
  • Sutton, Anne F. 2005. The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130–1578. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN: 0754653315.
  • Sutton, Anne F. 2006. “Two Dozen and More Silkwomen of Fifteenth Century London.” The Ricardian 16: 1–17.
  • Sutton, Anne F. 2013. “Serious Money: The Benefits of Marriage in London, 1400–1499.” The London Journal 38 (1): 1–17.
  • Sutton, Anne F., and P.W. Hammond, eds. 1983. The Coronation of Richard III. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN: 0862990300.
  • Sutton, Dana F., ed. 2005. Anglica Historia, Polydore Vergil (1555 Version): A Hypertext Critical Edition. Irvine: University of California, Irvine. Available at: Philological Museum.
  • Tatton-Brown, Tim, and Richard Mortimer, eds. 2006. Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN: 1843831570.
  • Taylor, Henry. 1881. Historic Notices, with Topographical and Other Gleanings Descriptive of the Borough and County-Town of Flint. London: Elliot Stock. Available at: University of California Libraries.
  • Timbs, John, comp. 1872. The Oddities of History: And Strange Stories, for All Classes of Readers. London: Charles Griffin. Available at: Oxford University Libraries.
  • Vergil, Polydore. 1844. Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History, Comprising the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. Edited by Henry Ellis. London: Camden Society. Available at: British Library.
  • Watney, Sir John. 1892. Some Account of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, in the Cheap, London, and of the Plate of the Mercers’ Company. London: Blades, East & Blades. Available at: British Library.
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  • White, J.G. 1904. History of the Ward of Walbrook in the City of London: Together with an Account of the Aldermen of the Ward and of the Two Remaining Churches, S. Stephen, Walbrook, & S. Swithin, London Stone, with Their Rectors. London: Privately Printed. Available at: British Library.
  • Willis, Robert, and John Willis Clark. 1886. The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at: British Library.

Manuscripts

Online Resources

  • Ancestry.com. 2025. “Ellen Tudor Family Tree.” Accessed March 2025. Available at: Ancestry.com.
  • British History Online. “Court of Common Pleas: The National Archives, CP40 1399–1500.” Available at: British History Online.
  • Find A Grave. Memorial #71379525. Available at: Find A Grave.
  • Geni.com. 2025. “Ellen Tudor Profile.” Accessed March 2025. Available at: Geni.com.
  • The Records of London’s Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen 1400–1900. Available at: London Roll.
  • St Edmundsbury Chronicle 2000: A Local History. Available at: St Edmundsbury Chronicle.
  • Suffolk History Resources. Available at: Suffolk Archives.
  • The Mediæval Hospitals of England. Available at: British History Online.
  • WikiTree. 2025. “Helen Tudor (Tudor-149).” Accessed March 2025. Available at: WikiTree.

Published Papers and Theses

  • Collins, Miriam A. 1985. “Pre-Industrial Towns: A Spatial Functionary Over Time and Space: A Comparative Study of Nineteenth Century Australian and Medieval Suffolk Towns.” PhD thesis, University of Adelaide, Department of History.
  • Ford, Lisa L. 2001. “Conciliar Politics and Administration in the Reign of Henry VII.” PhD thesis, University of St. Andrews.
  • Harper, Samantha Patricia. 2015. “London and the Crown in the Reign of Henry VII.” PhD thesis, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study.
  • Lewycky, Nadine. 2008. “Serving God and King: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s Patronage Networks and Early Tudor Government, 1514–1529, with Special Reference to the Archdiocese of York.” PhD thesis, University of York, Department of History.
  • Sutton, Anne F. 2010. “London Mercers from Suffolk, 1200 to 1500: Benefactors, Pirates and Merchant Adventurers, Part II.” Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Proceedings 42 (2): 129–152. Available at: Suffolk Institute.

Media

  • The Other Boleyn Girl. Directed by Justin Chadwick. Performances by Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Columbia Pictures, 2008.

Further Reading

  • Bindoff, S.T. 1982. The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN: 0436042827.
  • Brand, John. 1789. The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, vol. 2. London: B. White & Son. Available at: British Library.
  • Bracton, Henry de, and Travers Twiss, eds. 2012. Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 1108051499.
  • Brydges, Samuel Egerton. 1808. Censura Literaria, vol. 6. London: T. Bensley. Available at: British Library.
  • Church of England, Province of Canterbury, Prerogative Court. Index of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury … And Now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London. Edited by S.A. Smith, John Challenor Covington Smith, Leland L. Duncan, Ethel Stokes, and Richard Henry Ernest Hill. London: British Record Society. Available at: British Library.
  • Gibson, William Sidney. 1860. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Blyth, in the Counties of Nottingham and York. Westminster: J.B. Nichols and Sons. Available at: British Library.
  • Harrison, Stuart, and John McNeill. 2015. “The Romanesque Monastic Buildings.” BAA Transactions 39 (1): 45–67.
  • Longstaffe, W. Hylton Dyer, and Francis Le Keux. 1863. Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, by Thomas Tonge, Norroy King of Arms. Durham: Surtees Society. Available at: Harleian Society.
  • Miller, Stuart. 2015. Land and Farms Ownership, 1050–2015. London: Independent Publication.


Notes

  • Augmentation Office, Conventual Leases, Northumberland, Bundle I: Records an annuity of ten marks granted by Thomas Gardiner out of Benwell. See Gibson, The History of the Monastery Founded at Tynemouth, vol. 2, appendix, cli.
  • Star Chamber Proceedings, Henry VIII, Bundle 20, No. a. See Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. 4, p. 1469.
  • Star Chamber Proceedings, Henry VIII, Bundle 29, No. 84: Refers to Thomas Gardiner as bursar.
  • Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. 3, p. 176; vol. 4, p. 1574: Documents related to Thomas Gardiner’s ecclesiastical activities.
  • Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. 6, p. 337: Further references to Thomas Gardiner’s role under Henry VIII.

See Also

  • Bacon, Francis. 1881. History of the Reign of King Henry VII. Edited by J.R. Lumby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Originally published 1622. Available at: British Library.
  • The Academy, vol. 6, 1874, pp. 89–93. London: John Murray. Available at: British Library.
  • The Archaeological Journal, vol. 60, 1903. British Archaeological Association, Central Committee, Institute. Available at: British Library.
  • Bindoff, S.T. 1982. The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN: 0436042827.
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII, vol. 1, 1485–1494. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1914. Available at: The National Archives.
  • Evans, H., ed. 1910. Moliant Syr Rhys ap Thomas. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press.
  • Hanseatic Recesse, vol. 3. Edited by J.M. Lappenberg. Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke, 1872. Available at: Staatsarchiv Hamburg.
  • Journal of the Court of Common Council, vols. 9–11, 1485. Guildhall Library, London, UK, MS 1432. Available at: Guildhall Library.
  • Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, vol. 1, 1874. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Available at: The National Archives.
  • Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569. 1888. The Publications of the Harleian Society, vol. 27, p. 132. Available at: Harleian Society.

Additional Resources

  • The American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Massachusetts: A national research library of American history and culture through 1876. Available at: American Antiquarian Society.
  • British History Online (BHO) Search. Available at: British History Online.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Available at: Oxford DNB.
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