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in 1620. Count Sporck's father was an archetypal example of this sort of favorite, first ennobled with the rank of baron in 1647, then imperial count in 1664. He was given vast amounts of land in
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In 1694 the Prague physician J. F. Love confirmed the healing properties of the spring that originated on the left side of the river in the southern portion of the estate of
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Count Sporck had long sponsored theatrical performances at Kuks and his palace in Prague, but in 1724 permitted an
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philosophy and anti-Jesuitical polemicism. In 1729, his entire collection of books was carted away for investigation on the orders of the emperor
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