The handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., also, rules for the appointment of liveries, etc. etc. (1869)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 162
been an Heiress, and married to Clive, herHusband would set her quartered Arms on an Inescutcheonover his Fess, as we have already seen; but the Arms oftheir children would assume a new aspect. They would MABSHALLING. 15 5 bear on a quartered shield the Arms of the Gives, Stewarts,Butlers, and… … Fig. 254. By observing the foregoing rules, it can be readily knownby a Coat of Arms whether the possessor be unmarried,married, or a widow. The Arms of a bachelor consist eitherof a single Coat, or quartered; but never of two Coatsimpaled, except in the instance before mentioned, in whicha…
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