Eleanor Bull (c. 1550 – 1596) was an English woman, known for owning the establishment in which Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright and poet, was killed in 1593.
[4] They can be traced back to the thirteenth century, and "provided generations of county knights, MPs and sheriffs"; a generation prior, James Whitney (son of James Whitney of Whitney and Pen-cwm and Blanche Milborne, who raised Elizabeth I and Edward VI; Blanche's sister, Alice, was mother of Sybil and Blanche Parry) had been Server of the Chamber to Henry VIII.
He held the post of sub-bailiff at Sayes Court and worked for the Clerk of the Green Cloth.
[citation needed] Her normal clientele included supervisors or inspectors at the dockyards, exporters of quality goods, and merchants involved in imports from Russia and the Baltic ports.
Leslie Hotson, who first identified the documents relating to the inquest described Bull's house as a "tavern", leading to accounts of her as a kind of Mistress Quickly of Deptford "who is always ready to let a room for some disreputable purpose".