In a way, this research is pointless because I'm 100% sure that Keith Windham is not interested in being a Dissenter--he seems to be a default Anglican who is not interested in religion. But I had written a line in a fic where the question arises (though it was not actually necessary for the plot). Then ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
garonne noted that Keith could only really be an Anglican because that was required of all state officials, including military officers (or, well, they had to take Anglican communion once a year, at least). But I suspected that this would not be true because Keith is in a Scottish regiment.
It was surprisingly difficult to find information on this online, though now I see that if I had only used the right search terms, I would have found it--but of course the right search terms were part of what I didn't know. But finally in the article 'The Realities of Toleration: Army Chaplaincy, Religious Politics and Scottish military experience, c. 1690 to 1763', by Xiang Wei (2023), I found the answer. I could not get hold of it online by myself, and I bless the university library for never asking why someone in the math department would want to read such an article (is this in fact part of their professional code?).
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garonne noted that Keith could only really be an Anglican because that was required of all state officials, including military officers (or, well, they had to take Anglican communion once a year, at least). But I suspected that this would not be true because Keith is in a Scottish regiment. It was surprisingly difficult to find information on this online, though now I see that if I had only used the right search terms, I would have found it--but of course the right search terms were part of what I didn't know. But finally in the article 'The Realities of Toleration: Army Chaplaincy, Religious Politics and Scottish military experience, c. 1690 to 1763', by Xiang Wei (2023), I found the answer. I could not get hold of it online by myself, and I bless the university library for never asking why someone in the math department would want to read such an article (is this in fact part of their professional code?).
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