Monument record MHG29789 - Raitts Chapel

The first mention of Raitts Chapel in the historical record is in a church document of 1380. This details an argument between Alexander Bur, Bishop of Moray, and Alexander Stewart, the Lord of Badenoch (later known as the Wolf of Badenoch) in which the two clashed spectacularly over secular powers of juristiction over the Church.
The church held parcels of land in Badenoch, including those attached to the 'chapel of Rate and Nachton (Dunachton)' (Reg. Moray, no. 159). These lands would have been peopled by teneants who were obliged to yield a teind (or tithe) to the Church from their farming produce; the teind would have helped to maintain the chapels and their incumbent priests and would have contributed toward the Church's income in general. (Barrow 1989, 1-5).
In 1370, Stewart had pledged to act as the Bishop's sheriff in Badenoch, protecting the Church's lands there as if they were his own.