Should there be _three_ Coats to be quartered, they would severally occupy the first, second, and third quarters of the Shield, in due order, and the first quarter would be repeated in the fourth. In quartering _four_ coats, no repetition would be necessary. If more than four coats would require to be quartered, the Shield would be divided into whatever number of sections might be necessary, as in No. 36, and the required arrangement would be made; should any repetition be necessary, the first quarter is to be repeated in the fourth. This process, whatever the number of the coats thus marshalled (and their number sometimes is very great), is always entitled “_quartering_”; and each of these divisions of a Shield, for the purpose of Marshalling, is distinguished as a “Quarter.” Occasionally a _quartered coat_ would have to be marshalled with others. In the “grand quartering” which then takes place, the quartered coat is treated precisely as any other member of the group. See No. 37. For example, the Shield, No. 324 (R. 2), of HENRY, first Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND, is--I. and IV. Grand Quarters,--_first and fourth, or, a lion rampt. az._, for Louvaine, or Percy modern: _second and third, gu., three lucies haurient arg._ (No. 164) for Lucy: II. and III. Grand Quarters,--_az., five fusils conjoined in fesse or_, for Percy ancient. [Illustration: No. 324.--Shield of Henry, Earl of Northumberland.] When a Shield to be quartered has a very numerous array of Quarterings, Grand Quartering is seldom adopted; but, in its stead, the new quarterings are marshalled in their proper succession, with the original quarterings of the Shield. In this Marshalling the first quarter is occupied by the most important quartering, which is determined (without any fixed rule) by the original grant or licence: the other quarterings follow, in the order in which they may have been “brought in” to the composition. [Illustration: No. 325.--Shield of Mayor of Winchelsea.] [Illustration: No. 326.--De Valence, dimidiating Claremont Nesle.]