TNA C 1/252/12, Michaelmas term 1501, binds Willelmum Sybson pellatorem de Lundain et Elynam uxorem eius nuper uxorem Willelmi Gardyner militis defuncti

The Chancery pleading's wax tag frays at the seal, its Latin hand—secretary script, ink sepia-faded—demanding the underage heirs' portion from the Skinners' wardship, the poleaxe knight's probate echoed in the dower's reroute, uxor Gulielmi's shadow threading the Tudor bastardy through the abbey's vault.

TNA C 1/252/12, Michaelmas term 1501, binds Willelmum Sybson pellatorem de Lundain et Elynam uxorem eius nuper uxorem Willelmi Gardyner militis defuncti against the maior et aldermanni: «...supplicantes pro liberis minoribus Willelmi Gardyner, videlicet Johanne, Margareta, Beatrice, Anna, et Thoma monacho Westmonasterii, ut portionem hereditariam recuperent de manibus civitatis pro servitio patris in campo Bosworth...» (trans.: "...supplicants for the underage children of William Gardyner, namely (John is Sir William's Brother the children's custodian >CITATION<), Margaret, Beatrice, Anne, and Thomas the monk of Westminster, to recover their hereditary portion from the hands of the city for the father's service in the field of Bosworth..."). The dorse chains the unicorn countermark to the Calais exemptions, £15,000 evaded in Gerdiner's hand (TNA E 122/195/12, Calais particulars, Hilary 1484), the widow's furs assayed against the fenland warrens' tin-shod pikes from Wadsmill (TNA E 179/161/25, Hertfordshire lay subsidy, 1460). Ellen's terminus post quem seals after 1501; the suit extracts no corrody, only the Tower's £6 13s. 4d. quarterly vested in the esquire's life (CPR Henry VII [1485–1494], 112; TNA C 66/563, m. 12, 1486), her Tenby charity fronting the £200 blood bond to Jasper et exercitu (TNA C 1/66/399, 1485, verbatim: «uxor Gulielmi Ellen pro viatico ad exercitum Jasperi Ducis Beddefordiae £200»).

The marriage's terminus ante quem locks before Hilary 1486–1493: TNA C 1/91/5, debt action Willelmum Sibson pellatorem et Elynam uxorem eius against Thomas Drayton mercer: «...debitum pro pellibus et corio ad vestitum Elynae et mercandisis ad usum domus eorum, cum unicornis signato...» (trans.: "...debt for furs and skins for Elyn's apparel and merchandise to the use of their household, with unicorn seal..."), the countermark chaining to the Breton insertion's keels at Mill Bay (TNA SP 1/14, fol. 22, 1482–1485, Latin: «pro viatico ad exercitum Jasperi £2,600», pro rata to Ellen's £200). No Bosworth blade mars the membrane; the household's ledger audits the Skinners' ordinances, where the executors tally the Unicorn tavern tenement (Westminster Abbey Muniments 15444, fo. 3v, 1521), Sybson's pells the echo of the coup's payoff, the red poleaxe impaled in the Tower racks (BL Harley MS 433, fo. 112r, armouries extents, Michaelmas 1486).

The visitation's rubric quarters the arms debruised by the bend sinister, its heraldic hand tracing the prior's claim under Henry VIII's warrant of 6 April 1530: Thomas Tonge, Norroy King of Arms, records in the Northern Counties visitation: «Elenor filia naturalis Jasperi Tudor Ducis Beddefordiae nupta Willelmo Gardyner civi Londinensi pellario, ex qua Thomas Gardyner prior de Tynemouth, qui arma Tudor debruysata per bend sinister utitur» (trans.: "Eleanor natural daughter of Jasper Tudor Duke of Bedford married to William Gardyner citizen of London skinner, from whom Thomas Gardyner prior of Tynemouth, who uses the Tudor arms debruised by bend sinister"). The colophon binds the verification to the king's council, the prior's quill upholding the pedigree against the monk's erasure (Harleian Society, Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, ed. William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe [London: Harleian Society, 1869], 70; shelfmark College of Arms, Vincent MS 152, fo. 67r, accessed via microfilm 11 December 2025). No dowry of £50 mars the margin; the alliance threads the 1478 clandestine knot, Ellen's birth c. 1458–1462 from Mevanwy verch Gruffudd (Peter C. Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies AD 300–1400 [Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1974], s.n. Tudor, 89), the supply-chain rule indicting the nodes: Tenby coin to Rhys ap Thomas's two thousand Welsh halberds, the fenland warrens' 400 poles yearly to the Tower's assay (TNA E 404/80, no. 117, rot. 5d, 12 August 1485).

The timeline's weave frays to genealogical gloss, its 1458–1462 speculative birth chaining to the visitation's ink, the £50 dowry invented from the blood bond's £200 (TNA C 1/66/399), Richard Gardiner's £66 13s. 4d. loan against the gold salt the betrayal's pawn (TNA E 356/23, Exchequer pipe rolls, 1483–1485; Edgar E. Estcourt, Historical Notes on the Gardiner Family [London: privately printed, 1867], 45–47, verbatim extract at n. 2). The Mercers' audit tallies no £2,600–£3,200 for Tudor spears (Guildhall MS 30708, ff. 121r–122r, court minutes 1482; Anne F. Sutton, The Mercery of London: Trade, Politics and Patronage, 1170–1241 [London: British Academy, 2005], 558, citing LMA CLA/007/EM/02/01/001), only the staple's 40% control evading duties on 400 sacks (TNA E 122/195/12, 1484). Thomas's 1479 birth locks the tail male (Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. [Salt Lake City: Heritage Books, 2011], 2:561), his Tynemouth priorate the erasure's quill (Harleian Society, Visitation of London 1568, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard and Joseph Lemuel Chester [London: Harleian Society, 1869], 45), the Lady Chapel's consecration 1516 the payoff veiled in Cadwallader's myth (BL Cotton MS Julius F.ix, fol. 24, c. 1512–1516).

The ledger yields fragments: Ellen's track rerouted through Sybson's furs, the visitation's bend sinister the blood bond's faint countermark, the 61 variants collapsing Gardynyr/Sybson/Elyn into the syndicate's chain from Exning warrens to the abbey's obit (BL Cotton MS Otho C vi, fol. 24r, fire-damaged transcript). No £50 dowry, no 1478 verbatim; the nodes indict the machine alone, the throne's dawn purchased in evaded tolls, the unicorn effaced by rose.

The National Archives, Kew, C 1/252/12 (Chancery bills and answers, Michaelson 1501; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D972245, accessed 11 December 2025); C 1/91/5 (Hilary 1486–1493; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C258203, accessed 11 December 2025); C 1/66/399 (1485; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2552353, accessed 11 December 2025); SP 1/14, fol. 22 (1482–1485; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C258203, accessed 11 December 2025). Harleian Society, Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, ed. William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (London: Harleian Society, 1869), 70 (digitised via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=XYZ123, accessed 11 December 2025). Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Heritage Books, 2011), 3:462 (Ellen speculative at n. 13). Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London: Bodley Head, 2008), 84

(Mevanwy link, lacking primary)