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“Nevertheless, they were forbidden to buy land from non-Mennonites, except by special permission of the war ministry, since military obligations were based on land ownership.”
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
“Thus, in X75 o King Augustus III noted that Mennonites living in the territories of "Graudenz, Schwetz, Neuenburg, and those who live in other parts of Prussia ... have protested that they have been subjected to injustices, and curtailment of practice of their Mennonite religion."25”
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
“As Lutheran church leaders tried to stabilize support of their churches, the administrator of the Tiegenhof area asserted that church dues were bound to the land. Mennonites "who buy farmsteads from Lutherans ... acquire the customary village obligations toward the Lutheran churches."27 Repeatedly, religious and civil administrators insisted that church assessments were tied to land, not to persons. For their part, Mennonite communities often paid the assessments for widows and others who were in financial need.28”
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
― Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
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