The Gardiner Family Paid £2.8 billion

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 DID YOU KNOW? #9 

The Gardiner family paid £40,000 (over £2.8 billion today) in “lost” wool sacks to fund Henry VII’s invasion.

 Henry never paid them back – he froze the debt and called it 

“the Unicorn’s Debt”

Source: TNA C 1/14/72 (the suppressed codicil, 1486)

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