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107 QGT Brandenburg, p. 342 (1535); QGT Wiirttemberg, p. 855 (1614); QGT Baden and Pfalz, 1, 207 (1589).
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117 Ibid., pp. 642 (1589, a widow who remarried but shortly thereafter emigrated to the Hutterites with one of her children, leaving the other behind with her new husband; although her husband travelled after her, she refused to retum); 643 (a woman who abandoned her spendthrift husband, 1589).
118 For widows emigrating to Moravia with their children, see QGT Wurttemberg, pp. 642, 825, 881, 906; see also p. 889 for a returning widow who claimed that she had left her son behind in order that he might learn a trade.
119 There are numberous examples in QGT Wurttemberg, but those on pp. 648 are striking (a woman who was the sole member of her family not to have emigrated, but who intended to join them, 1590): 806 (an account of how many members of one family over the years to 1608 emigrated to Moravia); 880 (brother and sister both in Moravia).
120 For Hutterite letters filled with affection for family members still living “in the world,” see Wiedertäuferakten Hessen, pp. 496–503, 506–17 for the years 1587. 1597 respectively.
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132 The secondary literature has until recently been heavily dependent on the work of those attached to Hutterite belief, for example, Friedmann, , Hutterite Studies:Google Scholar the main sources have either been those of produced by the Hutte?tes themselves as part of the validation of their tradition (see Friedmann, , Hutterite Studies, 151–254, especially 151–6 on the Hutterite chronicles) or those generated by their persecutors. One rarely finds sources or studies produced from outside these two source traditions, although Hruby, “Die Wiedertäufer in Mähren,” revealed the importance of sources in Moravian archives, especially those of the Estates.Google Scholar
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