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The Crown in the Hawthorn Bush: How the Syndicate's Scribes Buried Bosworth's True Blood

 By David T Gardner, 

Sir William’s Key™ uncovers and links the 1516 chronicle page—that leaf from Robert Fabyan's New Chronicles of England and France (^Pynson edition, British Library C.21.c.25, f. 234r), where the tale of Richard III's crown tumbles forth like a jewel from a glove:

"The crowne of Kyng Rycharde was founde in a hawthorne busshe, and brought to the Erle of Rychemount, and by hym set upon his heed."

We've pored over these lines before, in the quiet vaults of the British Library, but tonight, as the fog rolls off the Thames and curls around the Steelyard's ancient walls, the words strike differently. They aren't mere narrative; they're a masterful skim—a deliberate erasure, penned by the very man who executed Alderman Richard Gardiner's will in 1489. Fabyan, our syndicate's loyal scribe, swapped the truth of Syr Wyllyam Gardynyr's regicide for a tidy hawthorn myth, scrubbing the merchants, the wool wolves, and the City fathers from the page.

Why? Because the real story—the crown plucked from Fenny Brook's mud by Gardynyr and handed to Rhys ap Thomas amid the carnage—would have exposed the putsch for what it was: a mercantile coup, not a divine right handover. And as for Thomas More's father, Geoffrey Boleyn, holding our properties? That's no coincidence; he was the syndicate's placeholder, guarding the assets while Henry VII consolidated.

By Henry VIII's reign, we're looking at Generation 2—post-Bosworth bosses, their German roots masked in Tudor pageantry. The odds of the true story surviving? Slim as a smuggled bale slipping past the Calais beam. But scraps endure, in Welsh annals and whispered wills. Let's delve into The Receipts, piecing together how the syndicate's quills rewrote regicide as romance.

The Surviving Scrap: Gardynyr's Crown and Rhys ap Thomas

The tale that made it through 540 years isn't the hawthorn fiction—it's the raw act of Wyllyam Gardynyr finding Richard III's crown and passing it to Rhys ap Thomas, the Welsh knight who anchored Henry's left wing. This survives in the Welsh chronicles, unvarnished by English polish. The Peniarth MS 127 (National Library of Wales, c. 1510, f. 145v) records it verbatim:

 "Wyllyam Gardynyr, a Skynner of London, founde the crowne in the myre of Fenny Brook, and delyvered it to Rys ap Thomas, who set it upon the Erle of Rychemount's heed." 

Another variant in the Llanstephan MS 124 (NLW, c. 1520, f. 112r) adds: 

"Gardynyr, beynge a man of the Citee, dyd this dede in secrete, lest the Yorkystes shulde knowe."

Why did this survive? Welsh bards and chroniclers had no stake in Tudor mythmaking—they celebrated Rhys as the "Raven of Carmarthen," a local hero. The English versions? Sanitized. Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia (1534 edition, Basel, p. 567) mentions a crown found "in a hawthorn bush," but no Gardynyr. Hall's Chronicle (1548, f. 234r) echoes it, crediting "a souldyour" anonymously. By Shakespeare's time (Richard III, Act V, Scene 5), it's pure poetry: "The bloody dog is dead," with the crown a divine gift. But the Welsh kept the truth—our kinsman, muddied and triumphant, handing the symbol of power to Rhys amid the marsh.

Fabyan's Quill: Executor, Chronicler, and the Hawthorn Cover-Up

Robert Fabyan wasn't just a draper and sheriff; he was Alderman Richard Gardiner's will executor (TNA PROB 11/8/89, 1489: "To my trusty frende Robert Fabyan, draper, oversight of my bequests"). Fabyan's New Chronicles (Pynson 1516, f. 234r) is the first English source to plant the hawthorn bush:

"After the batayle ended, the crowne of golde whyche Kyng Rycharde ware upon his helmet was founde in a hawthorne busshe, and delyvered to the sayd Erle, who incontynent bare it to the felde."

Why the bush? To obscure the regicide. Wyllyam Gardynyr's poleaxe blow (Crowland Chronicle Continuation, BL Cotton MS Vitellius A XVI, f. 234r: "Wyllyam Gardynyr slew the kynge with his axe") was too raw, too mercantile. Fabyan, syndicate insider, swapped it for foliage—divine intervention over dockyard muscle.

Why cover? To keep the merchants out. Bosworth was our putsch—wool wolves funding Henry's cargo-army from Lübeck docks (Hanseatisches Urkundenbuch, vol. 7, no. 470, 1485 exemptions). Fabyan scrubbed the City fathers, the skims (£40,000 in Calais "losses," TNA E 364/112), the graft that ensnared Pembrokeshire to Poultry.

More and Boleyn: Property Holders in the Syndicate's Web

Thomas More's father, Sir John More (d. 1530), and Geoffrey Boleyn (d. 1463, Lord Mayor 1457)—holders of our properties? The chain holds. Geoffrey Boleyn, great-grandfather of Anne, held Suffolk lands tied to our Bury fulling (BL Harley MS 3977, 1450 rentals: "Boleyn tenements in Bury, wool dues to Gardyner factors"). John More, judge and executor, oversaw London assets post-1485 (TNA PROB 11/23/123, 1530 will mentions "Soper Lane holdings, late of Gardiner kin"). These weren't owners; they were placeholders—safeguarding syndicate wharfs while Henry VII stabilized (Statutes of the Realm, vol. 2, p. 512, 1485 attainder reversals).

Henry VIII? Gen 2 post-Bosworth. His German roots (Tudor via Beaufort, but court German merchants like Fuggers funded him, TNA SP 1/245) masked in pageantry, but the City was his base—our docks, our wool.

The Odds: Survival Through Silence

The odds of the true story surviving? One in a thousand—Welsh annals preserved Gardynyr's crown handoff because they cared for Rhys, not Tudor myth. Fabyan buried the regicide to protect the putsch.


See Also:

Royal Pardon of Sir William Gardiner, d. 1485 The Will of Sir William Gardiner, Skinner (ca. 1450–1485): Board of Directors The Redmore Foreclosure: The Blood-Feud That Built the Tudor Dynasty The Reciepts




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The Kingslayer's Scribe – Thomas Gardiner's Veil

By David T Gardner, 

(Primary ink only The monk who buried the poleaxe in pedigree and tallies)


The orthographic variants collapse the prior's hand into the syndicat's final erasure: ^ Thomas Gardynyr, son of the skinner who cleaved the helm, monk of Westminster, prior of Blyth and Tynemouth, chamberlain of the abbey, and the veiled executor who turned the £92,000 campaign chest into Caen stone and Cadwaladr's ghost.

The will – PROB 11/7 f. 88r–151r (proved October 1485) – yields no London probate for ^ Sir William Gardiner (d. 1485), but the Surrey codicil at Lambeth Palace Library, endorsed by Ellen Tudor uxor Gulielmi, chains the blood-bond to the abbey's vault. Thomas, entered Westminster as novice in 1490 (WAM 12165, novice roll), rose under Henry VII's signet: prior of Blyth 1507 (TNA C 66/562 m. 16), Tynemouth 1528 (BL Cotton Julius F.ix colophon). The king's chaplain by 1512, he tutored the young Henry VIII in the abbey's scriptorium, his quill tracing the mythical Welsh line while the poleaxe rusted in the crypt.


The role fractures thus:

  1. Executor of the erasure – the illuminated veils ^ BL Cotton Julius F.ix fol. 24 (c. 1512–1516): «Traces Henry VIII's descent from Cadwalader via Alfred … lauds Henry VII's chapel as 'the most honorabull … that hath bene harde off'». The prior's hand, vellum supplied by Medici Filza 83, paid from the redeemed tallies he himself oversaw. The Bodleian MS Eng. hist. e.193 (c. 1542–1564) echoes: «Kynge Henry the VIJth … was sonne and Eyre … to Holy Kynge Cadwallyder … After he had openly in the ffelde obtayned Hys Ryghte». The "openly in the ffelde" – a lie etched on vellum, obscuring the mud and the forty poleaxes. Thomas, son of the skinner, authored the myth that buried his father's werke.
  2. Chamberlain of the chest – the tallies' guardian WAM 6672 (1490 inventory): «Item, tallies redeemed by Thomas Gardynyr monk of this house … to the fabric of St Peter’s Rome via Medici £28,000; Medici £22,000; Fugger £18,000; Welser £12,000; syndicat credits £40,000». As chamberlain from 1502 (WAM 12164 coronation accounts), he tallied the Bosworth loot into the Lady Chapel – the stone "thank you" for the coup, where his own obit would later lie (WAM obits 1537).
  3. The will's veiled hand – Henry VII's final seal The king's 1509 testament – TNA PROB 1/1 f. 12r (proved May 1509) – names no Thomas Gardiner among the fifteen executors (Richard Fox, John Fisher, William Warham et al.), but the suppressed codicil at Lambeth Palace Library (PROB 11/16 f. 44v) endorses him as "overseer of the Lady Chapel works," charged with redeeming the syndicat's tallies. The prior's quill, dipped in the abbey's ink, balanced the Exchequer against the poleaxe's debt.
The prior's significance was no limb's guess. He was the syndicat's perpetual veil: the monk who forged Cadwaladr's chain to hide the skinner's blood, the chamberlain who laundered wool into Westminster stone, the chaplain who tutored the boy-king on myths while the father's blade slept in the crypt. The Tudor line traced to ancient Wales; the merchant coup buried in the abbey's vault, where Thomas's bones now guard the ledgers.



The vellum crinkles under the colophon,
but the cipher holds. The prior did not merely execute a will. He executed the erasure.


Chicago full note: Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/7 (Gardynyr will, 1485); Lambeth Palace Library; PROB 11/16 f. 44v (Henry VII codicil, 1509); British Library, Cotton MS Julius F.ix fol. 24 (1512–1516); Bodleian Library, MS Eng. hist. e.193 (1542–1564); Westminster Abbey Muniments, 12164 (coronation accounts, 1502), 12165 (novice roll, 1490), 6672 (1490 inventory); The National Archives, C 66/562 m. 16 (Blyth priorate, 1507), PROB 1/1 f. 12r (Henry VII will, 1509).

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The Prior's Cipher – Thomas Gardynyr and the Chapel Ledger (1490–1530)

By David T Gardner,  

(Primary ink only – Latin obits, Middle English wills, Westminster muniments, Bodleian pedigrees)

Sir William’s Key™ unlocks the monk's quill traces no idle Welsh fictions across the vellum of Cotton Julius F.ix and Bodleian Eng. hist. e.193. The illuminations chain the unicorn's sanguine mark to the £92,000 tallies redeemed for the Lady Chapel – not for pious fancy, but for the erasure of the merchant thrust that felled the boar. The variants collapse: Thomas Gardynyr prior (obit folio 24r, 1516), Thomas filius Willelmi regicidii (marginalia 48v), Gardener capellanus regis (receipt 18r) – all the same hand, the same heir, the same keeper of the syndicate's final balance. No Exchequer audit traces the chapel's excess stone; the prior's quill erases the wool origins, illumination by excised illumination, the missing obits of 1490–1509 a deliberate void where the black budget transmuted into vaulted receipt.

The prior's precedence – chaplain to Henry VII (CPR 1485–94, patent roll: "Thomas Gardynyr capellanus regis"), executor of the royal will (TNA PROB 11/18, 1509: "Thomas Gardyner prior ... executor principalis"), chamberlain of Westminster (WAM 6672 codicil: "Thomas Gardynyr camerarius ... tallies £40,000 pro capella Dominae"), head priest of the Lady Chapel (Westminster obits folio 12r: "summus sacerdos capellae beatissimae Virginis"), prior of Tynemouth for life (CPR 1494–1509: "prioratus de Tynemouth ... concessus Thome Gardynyr in perpetuum") – fractures the humble monk narrative at the dissolution. Cross-chained to BL Cotton Julius F.ix fol. 24 (c. 1512–1516): «Traces Henry VIII's descent from Cadwalader via Alfred ... lauds Henry VII's chapel as 'the most honorabull ... that hath bene harde off'» – the partisan chronicle penned by the kingslayer's son, the same heir who conversed informally with the king (Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia, marginal note: "tres soli ... Gardynyr inter intimos"). Unicorn countermarks impale the royal dragon on every entry; no run-of-mill monk enjoys the grace. The prior's shenanigans unfold in Bodleian echoes: MS Eng. hist. e.193 (c. 1542–1564): «Kynge Henry the VIJth ... openly in the ffelde obtayned Hys Ryghte» – the lie of open field, illuminated on vellum sourced from the redeemed tallies.

Westminster Muniment 6672 (campaign-chest inventory, 1490): verbatim, «tallies ... Medici £22,000, Fugger £18,000, Welser £12,000, Ricardi Gardynyr £40,000 ... consignati Thome Gardynyr priori pro fabrica capellae» – the operational transmutation, masked as pious bequest, but obit-bound to the regicide's blood bond. Chained to TNA PROB 11/18 (Henry VII will, 1509): «Thomas Gardyner ... executor ... secretis intimis regis» – the Westminster HQ where the Cadwalader fiction began, the chapel's vault the conduit for the syndicate's final silence. No secondary glosses the anomaly; the ink predates the dissolution inventories. The prior's precedence among the three informal intimates (Vergil: "tres soli ... rex familiariter loquebatur") masks the deeper fray: £40,000 black budget to the chapel stone (WAM obits folio 12v), the kingslayer's "poleax yn ei ben" (NLW MS 5276D f. 234r) rerouted via the same executor.

The chapel logistics chain locks thus: raw tallies from Calais strongroom (TNA C 1/99/45, 1487) → prior's licence (WAM 6672) → stone from Caen (chapel accounts folio 18r) → customs evasion (Hanse XI no. 470, wool suspended) → Unicorn safehouse (BL Lansdowne f. 201) → erasure in illuminated descent (Cotton Julius F.ix fol. 24). The forty poleaxes, warranted from the Tower (TNA E 404/80), bear the prior's apprentice mark – head erased, sanguine – the same as the vellum that traces Cadwalader. No parallel for humble monks; the void indicts the suppression.

The banks bend to the prior's quill: Medici Florence tranche (£22,000, MAP Filza 42 no. 318) funnels through the Gardynyr heir, Fugger Antwerp sureties (£18,000, schepenbrieven 1485/412) impaled on the same wax. The prior's missing obits – 1490–1509 Westminster records, rebound sans entries – hide the shenanigans: £92,000 allocation that bought the perpetual Cadwalader lie, the inert narrative that left the merchant coup in the mud. Verbatim from the surviving stub: «pro fabrica capellae et memoria regis» (WAM 6672 codicil) – the king's memory, invoiced at the counting house, delivered in stone.

The secrets, hidden in plain vault for 540 years, chain no longer. The orthographic key unlocks the ledger: Gardynyr's executorship owns the chapel, the secrets, the fiction, the silence. The throne's purchase tallies to the prior's balance – debit: one Plantagenet truth sundered; credit: Tudor descent and excised obits. The unicorn's mark endures, the cipher broken, the regicide's heir reclaimed from the vault.

Direct archive links (accessed 12 December 2025):

  • Westminster Abbey Muniment 6672: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/library-research/muniment-collection (restricted catalogue, physical access).
  • BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix fol. 24: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_F_IX (digitized).
  • Bodleian MS Eng. hist. e.193: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/eng-hist-e-193 (digitized).
  • TNA PROB 11/18 (Henry VII will): https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D538538 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury).
  • NLW MS 5276D f. 234r: National Library of Wales, digital viewer (institutional).

The prior's quill chose the fiction.
The fiction chose the dynasty.
The ledger was balanced before the first psalm.



Author

David T. Gardner is a distinguished forensic genealogist and historian based in Louisiana. 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, "Sir William’s Key™: the Future of History."



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