The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey

The fifteenth-century cartulary of the Benedictine nunnery of Chatteris abbey in Cambridgeshire (founded in the early eleventh century) has until now received little attention, perhaps due to its damage in the Cotton Library fire of 1731. The records, however, reveal valuable detail about the abbey's operations, and, as one of the few cartularies surviving from English nunneries, are especially useful for the study of women religious.