An heir may bear his father's arms unquartered, but he is not entitled by the common law of arms to bear his mother's so.
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Unquartered
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John's father, also John, whose seal was seen somewhere by Streatfeild (in whose MSS. there is a drawing of the seal) used a plain unquartered shield of the Pashley crowned and double-queued lion[…]
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