chapter 80, 84-85 (volume 3).

"The Pragmatic Sanction, though framed to legalize the accession of Maria Theresa, excludes the present Emperor's daughters and his grandchild by postponing the succession of females to that of males in the family of Charles VI."

_J. D. Bourchier, The Heritage of the Hapsburgs (Fortnightly Review, March, 1889)._

ALSO IN: _H. Tuttle, History of Prussia, 1740-1745, chapter 2._

_S. A. Dunham, History of the Germanic Empire,