Editing Walter Scott (section)

==Religion==
Scott was raised as a [[Presbyterian]] in the Church of Scotland. He was ordained as an elder in [[Duddingston Kirk]] in 1806,<ref name="Duddingston Kirk – Home">{{cite web |title=Duddingston Kirk – History and Buildings |website=Duddingston Kirk – Home |url=http://duddingstonkirk.co.uk/history_and_buildings.html |access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref> and sat in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the burgh of Selkirk. In adult life he also adhered to the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]]: he seldom attended church but read the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' services in family worship.<ref>[[#CITEREFLockhart1852|Lockhart]], Vol. 2, pp. 186, 190.</ref>

Scott was one of the last individuals cursed by the [[Muggletonianism|Muggletonian]] movement on account of his reviling Muggletonianism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lamont |first=William M. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm60715132 |title=Last witnesses: the Muggletonian history, 1652-1979 |date=2006 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-0-7546-5532-9 |location=Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT |oclc=ocm60715132}}</ref>