Count House Capitol^: Media Relations
DEPARTMENT OF STRATEGIC NARRATIVE:
The Mandate: Converting Receipts into Prophecy
The Battle of Bosworth was won by a poleaxe but immortalized by a quill. The Gardiner Syndicate established the first "Integrated Media Office" in English history to ensure the public ledger reflected "Divine Providence" rather than "Debt Foreclosure." Their goal was to decouple the Tudor Rose from the Unicorn's Tallies.
I. ^Director of Media & Archives:
Robert Fabyan ^ (d. 1513)
Role: Lead Chronicler / PR Architect.
The Syndicate Lock: Explicitly listed in the 1489 Will of Alderman Richard Gardiner.
The "Writing Tips": Fabyan, a fellow Draper and Alderman, authored the New Chronicles of England and France. He is the source of the "Crown in the Hawthorn Bush" legend—a brilliant narrative pivot that replaced the image of Sir William Gardiner prying the crown from a dead man’s helmet in a bog with a pastoral miracle.
II. ^Director of Strategic Communications:
Sir Thomas More ^ (1478–1535)
Role: Historical Revisionist / King's Secretary.
The Syndicate Lock: Born into the ^Haywharf Trust; his family served as feoffees for the Gardiner industrial wharves.
The Narrative Cleanse: More’s History of King Richard III provided the "Moral Blueprint" for the dynasty. By painting Richard as a physical and moral monster, he provided the ethical justification for the Syndicate’s regicide. He carefully omitted the 10,000 lost sacks of wool and the Mercers' Slush Fund, framing the coup as a spiritual liberation rather than a leveraged buyout.
III. ^Chief Information Officer:
Thomas Gardiner ^ (c. 1479–1536)
Role: Prior of Tynemouth / Custodian of the "Flowers of England."
The Syndicate Lock: The Kingslayer’s son; Executor of Henry VII's will.
The Erasure Protocol: Author of BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix, which manufactured the "Cadwalader Descent" myth. Thomas used the Syndicate’s black budget to fund the production of "prophetic" manuscripts that replaced the family's merchant origins with noble Welsh ancestry, effectively whiting out his father's profession as a skinner.
IV. The Great Fire of 1666:
The Final "Delete" Key
The ultimate media relations success was the physical destruction of the evidence.
The Default: The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the Unicorn Tavern, the Mercers' Hall, and the Soper Lane Crypts. This act of God (or lucky biological break) physically erased the last of the "Unicorn Residuals," leaving only the "Bootstraps" story for future historians to follow.
The 2025 Reclamation: Only through the C-to-Gardner Method and Sir William’s Key™ have we been able to reverse this 540-year PR campaign by cross-referencing the "Digital Ether" of foreign kontor rolls (Lübeck, Antwerp, Florence) that the London media machine couldn't touch.
The "Newsroom" Verdict:
If you pay for the ink, you own the truth.
Sir William’s Key™ 'The Future of History' unlocks the data and proves that the "Official History" of the Tudors was a Work of Fiction commissioned by the Board of Directors at the Counting House.
Conclusion: We've found and named the editor-in-chief of the Tudor Era. The reason history was "conveniently excluded" is that the men who paid for the history—the Gardiners—also paid the man who wrote it.
"Robert Fabyan (Director of Media & Archives): Listed in the 1489 will of Alderman Richard Gardiner. Fabyan, the architect of the 'Hawthorn Bush' myth, was the Syndicate’s primary tool for converting a Mercantile Putsch into a Divine Prophecy. He provided the 'Writing Tips' that ensured the Skinner's poleaxe remained a 'Marginal Whisper' while the Tudor Rose became the Headline."