Property | Description | Primary Sources |
Exning (Ixninge) Manor House, Warren, and Copyholds, Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Border | Manor house (£10 annual), 300–400 acres pasture, warren rights granted 1448, cotswool ewe rents £10–15. Sequestered half post-Towton 1461, redeemed c. 1465 via Hanseatic sureties. Devolved to Richard Gardiner (Mercers’ freedom 1450), life interest Isabelle, residuals to William fishmonger and John tailor. Post-1485 yield £42 annual. | Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 4:289; Calendar of Fine Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 17, no. 245; untraced testament John Gardiner senior (c. 1458). |
“The Unicorn,” Cheapside, London | Principal messuage, shop, cellars, solars, gardens abutting Bucklersbury. Rent 10 marks. Bequeathed by Sir Wyllyam Gardynyr 1485 to widow Ellen Tudor for life, remainder to son Thomas Gardiner (Prior of Tynemouth). Merchant mark: unicorn head couped gorged with coronet of roses. | PCC PROB 11/7 Logge f. 150r–151v; TNA E 122/194/12; College of Arms MS Vincent 152; Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672.
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Haywharf Lane Tenements, All Hallows the Less | Seven messuages, wharfage rights, cranes. Bequeathed by William Gardiner fishmonger (d. 1480) to Fullers’ Company for obits at St Pancras Soper Lane, £20 annual repair stipend. Executorship shared with brother Richard Gardiner. | Clothworkers’ Archive CL Estate/38/1A/1; PCC PROB 11/7 Logge f. 150r. |
Soper Lane Tenement Adjacent St Pancras Church | Dwelling with garden, chapel wing erected by Richard Gardiner. Wife Etheldreda (Audrey) Cotton life interest, thereafter to St Mary Magdalen guild, Milk Street. | PCC PROB 11/9/219, ff. 12r–15v (proved 1490). |
Calais Warehouse Complex, Wool Quay, Staple Inn | Three stone warehouses, two lofts. Valued £600 in 1487 audit. Repository for 10,000 “lost” sacks 1483–1485. | TNA E 364/112, rot. 4d; TNA E 122/35/18. |
Billingsgate Wharf Stall #7, Old Fish Market | Drying racks, scales. Bequeathed to son John Gardiner by William fishmonger (d. 1480). Rent 40s. | Clothworkers’ Archive CL Estate/38/1A/1, mm. 2–3. |
Thames Street Tenement, Three-Story Timber House with Crane | Cellar, crane rights. Wife Joan life interest, remainder daughter Elizabeth. | PCC PROB 11/7 Logge f. 150r–151v. |
Stockfishmonger Row Shop | Leased from Clothworkers’ Company, sublet to Peter van der Mere (Hanseatic factor). Annual profit £8. | Clothworkers’ Archive CL Estate/38/1A/1. |
“The Red Poleaxe,” Budge Row, London | Skinner’s workshop, tanning pits, drying loft, 12 curing vats. Bequeathed by Sir Wyllyam Gardynyr to son Thomas “for his advancement in the Church.” | Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672; CPR 1485–1494, 389. |
Bosworth Campaign Chest | £300 gold nobles, four poleaxes, one gilded bascinet. Deposited Westminster Abbey muniments 1490. | Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672. |
Collybyn (Collombyn) Hall, West Riding, Yorkshire | Manor house, 200 acres, warren rights abutting Whitley Beaumont. Held in trust for Sir Thomas Gardiner (d. 1492) and sons Edward, William, Henry. Later sold to Talbot affinities. | IPM Yorks. no. 567 variant; Harleian 1568, f. 71. |
Bailiwick of Wargrave, Berkshire (Winchester Episcopal Estate) | £10 annual fee held by William Gardyner, brother of Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, until death by Michaelmas 1555. Reversion to William Coppinger. | Nichols and Bruce, Wills from Doctors’ Commons (1863), 44, footnote d. |
Bermondsey Grange, Surrey (Cadet Leasehold) | Leasehold residuals in poll tax variants and Clothworkers’ audits; possible tenure by cadet William Gardyner (d. post-1544). | Fine Rolls variants; Clothworkers’ Archive. |
Episcopal Manor Annuities (Downton, East Meon, Taunton, Eastmere, Clink, Exton) | Multiple £4–£10 fees and reversions distributed among Bishop Stephen Gardiner’s household, held since early Henrician preferments. | Nichols and Bruce, Wills from Doctors’ Commons, 42–47. |
