Jane Kendall

Jane Kendall was an English widow who kept a boardinghous in London in the sixteenth century. Her tenants included playwright William Shakespeare and suspected witch Cicily Sellis.

Kendall was a Catholic under the Protestant Queen Elizabeth and thus benefited from the replacement of Elizabeth's faith as England's official state religion with her own after the Spanish Armada conquered England in 1588. Nevertheless, while Kendall preferred Queen Isabella and King Albert to Elizabeth, she resented the presence of Spanish soldiers as occupiers in England.

Widow Kendall was extremely thrifty with her money.