These rules include both those found in The Oxford Guide and the practices used in
the arrangement for my grandfather; while I do not have the full sets of documents for
other such quarterings, those documents I have seen do seem to follow the same
practices as in my grandfather's:
- The subject's personal arms are put in the first, dexter, quarter of the display,
- Quarterings are from heraldic heiresses (click here for a fuller discussion),
- Quarterings are the personal coats of arms of heiresses' fathers, those that they used after their father's death,
- Include all arms borne by male line ancestors (click here for a fuller discussion),
- Include arms devised after a person's death (click here for a fuller discussion),
- Include the arms of heiresses only to their mother's arms, with her father's arms
in a canton (click here for a fuller discussion),
- Possibly, include the arms of any earldom held in those lines (click here for a fuller discussion),
- Omit any sovereign's arms if English (click here for a fuller discussion).
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