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Title: Peeps at heraldry
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, Phoebe
Subjects: Heraldry
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his ownfamily coat. All the sons of an heiress or co-heiressmay use their mothers arms after she is dead asquarterings with those of their father, dividing theshield as in Fig. 54 and placing their paternal arms inthe first and fourth quarters and their maternal in thesecond and third. When three coats of arms are to be represented on ashield, the most important occupies the first and fourthquarters. A familiar example of this is furnished bythe royal arms of Great Britain, where we see the lionsof England in the first and fourth quarters, the lionrampant of Scotland in the second, and the harp ofIreland in the third. The Earl of Pembroke, in 1348, was the firstsubject, so Mr. Hulme tells us, who quartered his arms. When a great number of quarterings are chargedupon the shield, the order in which these quarterings aremarshalled * or arranged is very important, the original * Marshalling means the art of grouping or arranging various coatsof arms on one and the same shield. 72 PLATE 6.
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SIR WILLIAM HLRSCHEL. >n mount vert, representation of the 40 ft. reflecting telescopewith its apparatus ppr. on a chief az: the astronomical symbol of Lranusirradiated or. s/.—A demi terrestrial sphere ppr. thereon an eagle, wings elevated or.M■<//(». — Coelis exploratis. Quartering and Marshalling arms being always placed in the upper dexter of the field—that being the most honourable point—and the otherarms following in the sequence in which they wereintroduced into the family coat of arms. There were two methods of marshalling in earlyheraldry. One was known as cc dimidation, whichmeans cutting a coat of arms in half, pale-wise, andmatching it with another half of another coat of arms,so as to make one achievement of the two joinedhalves. Thus, when a wifes arms were to be repre-sented on the same shield as her husbands, both coatswere halved, and then placed upon the shield, thehusbands arms occupying the right side, and those ofthe wife the left. As you can imag

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