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Scan 38

The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894

6 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 30. See the scan on archive.org.

1prescribed taxes be paid at different times. As these were all paid at once it was possible to admit an apprentice to mastership within the limits of one day. After the first coming into force of the Landgrave's edict concerning the reform of abuses, the facilities afforded by a speedier mode of payment was still allowed to Gotthilf Ficker, a member of a family not hitherto connected with the art, but who had been enlisted in the Militia.
3On the application of the violin-maker's apprentice, Georg Schuster, on June 27th, 1748, it was decided that the taxes should be payable quarterly; thus Georg Schuster was really only elected to Mastership of the violin-maker's profession at the Guild Meeting of April 10th, 1849. As he had to pay 25 thaler, he certainly cannot have been a master's son, nor in possession of a Burgher-House, yet the family of Schusters was probably settled in Markneukirchen as early as the middle of the 17th century, for in a diploma of the year 1666 there is mention of one "Rauner Schusterin," i.e., certainly the wife of a man named Schuster who had wandered thither from the village of Raun (or she might have been a born Rauner) and in the year 1683 is mentioned the joiner, George Schuster, as owner of the site for the new cemetery.
5On the admission, in 1760, of John Adam Glier, (son of the master of the same name), and of Johann Georg Ficker, who had performed his military service, the father, Glier, appears to have attached much weight to the observance of the articles of the Guild Charter, especially to that part relating to periodical payments; the time over which

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