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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1each other, for it is an undoubted fact that the original 10 exiled families took especial pains to live on terms of close unity with the inhabitants of Markneukirchen.
3Were not all in this land, where the very cradle of the Reformation had stood, and in a town whose church had been consecrated by the Evangelical services held therein by the great Reformer himself, bound together by the ties of an identical religious belief?
5This meant a great deal more in those times, when State and society, and all the vital interests of a mixed population depended on the security and freedom of religious practice, than one is accustomed to realize in the present century of overwhelming enlightenment, of religious half-heartedness and of individual free-thought, if one may so express it.
7We shall be probably correct in surmising that a long time before the formation of the Guild, violins were made in Markneukirchen by the founders of the Guild themselves and by their immediate ancestors, and that those seven original families (or at least the more important among them) had been settled in Markneukirchen a hundred years before, and that this lapse of time had amply sufficed to convert them from exiles into full-blown citizens.
9The first charter of this Guild of violin-makers was granted and confirmed by the Herzog Moritz of Sachsen on March 6th, 1617. We must remember that the persecution of the Evangelists in Bohemia did not begin in the 17th century, but in the days of Kaiser Rudolf II. (the pupil and
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