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62 four at 800 fl. (£80), for native nobility, and eight at 400 fi. (£40), for state functionaries.

The peace of Pressburg (26th December, 1805), having restored the independance of Wurzburg by creating it a GrandDuchy, its Sovereign, Prince Ferdinand Archduke of Austria, re-established the institution at Wurzburg by a convention with Bavaria (29th April, 1807), and gave it in 1811 new statutes. In 1814, though Wurzburg fell again to the share of Bavaria, the institution retained its independance, nor were its statutes materially altered, except that the number and title of the members were in so far modified, that instead of four members (as fixed in 1811), the number was now fixed at an uncertain number of honorary ladies, twelve noble ladies with pensions of 800 florins each, and twenty non-noble ladies with pensions of 400 florins each.

These pensions were granted until their marriage, and if married with royal consent, one year's pension was allowed by way of dower.

The badge (Tab. III. No. 20) is a gold Cross, white enamelled, and its broad sides rounded. The obverse represents in gold upon white enamelled ground St. Ann, and upon the points are distributed the words: 'In ihren edlen Téchtern' (In her noble daughters), while the reverse bears the crest of the founder. It is worn upon the black dress suspended by a red ribbon with silver borders.

THE ORDER OF THERESA.

"To grant to a certain number of unmarried noble ladies, a distinction of honour, as also a pension by which their income may be increased," so says the introductory part of the Patent. Theresa, late Queen of Bavaria, founded (12th December, 1827)