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The term “Seize Quartiers” as well understood in Europe as the true test of birth, is the source of much confusion in the UK, where descent in the strict male line is the one to which preference is given, and to which the chief and almost sole value is attached. The “quarterings” which a man inherits, and may bear upon his own escutcheon, are the arms of those of his female ancestors who were heiresses in blood, or, had no brothers to leave surviving issue. These have no relation to the proof of “seize quartiers,” the arms of which are not necessarily borne, inherited, or transmitted. Every person has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and sixteen great-great-grandparents. To show a right to “seize quartiers,” it must be proved that the whole and each individual one of these sixteen great-great-grandparents were in their own right lawfully entitled to bear arms.

In England it is the exception for this to be found possible. It is rare indeed other than with Catholic families. That anyone in England should be in such a position to prove as much a generation farther back in every line, and show that each of his thirty-two great-great-great-grandparents had the right to bear arms is almost(?) unique. Alfred Joseph, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton, could do this, and the following scheme of “Trent-Deux Quartiers” was drawn up at the College of Arms by Stephen Tucker Esquire, Somerset Herald.

The 32 Stourton Quarterings (1877)

TRENT-DEUX QUARTIERS OF LORD MOWBRAY AND STOURTON compiled for the Mowbray-Segrave Case 1877.
Showing Stourton's 32 Great-great-great-grandparents by S Tucker, Somerset Herald.

Heir or heiress	Son or daughter of	Blazon
1. Hon. Charles, Lord Stourton	William, 12th Lord Stourton (d.1685)	Sable, a bend or, between six fountains proper
2. Catherine Frampton	Richard Frampton Esq, of Biddlesdon, Co. Wilts	Argent, a bend gules, cottised sable
3. Philip Howard esq, of Buckingham, Co. Norfolk		Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent. For augmentation to be charged on the bend, the Royal Shield of Scotland, having a demi-lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow.
4. Winifred Stonor	Thomas Stonor Esq, of Stonor	Azure, two barrulets dancetté or, a chief argent
5. Marmaduke, 4th Lord Langdale		Sable, a chevron between three estoiles argent
6. The Hon. Elizabeth Widrington	William, 3rd Lord Widrington	Quarterly argent and gules, a bend sable
7. Sir John Smythe bt, of Acton		Sable, three roses argent
8. Constantina Blount	George Blount Esq, of Mawley, Worcs	Barry nebuly of six or and sable
9. Edward Weld Esq, of Lulworth		Azure, a fess nebuly between three cresents ermine
10. Mary Theresa Vaughan	John Vaughan Esq, of Courtfield	Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant argent
11. Sir John Stanley-Massey-Stanley, of Pudlington, Chester		Argent, on a bend azure, three stags heads caboshed or Arms: Derby, Earl of (E, 1485) Family name: Stanley later Stanley-Smith later Stanley
12. Mary Clifton ? (Cracrofts = Mary Blount!)	(co-heir) of Thomas Clifton ? (Cracrofts = dau of 5th Aston & Barb Talbot!)	Argent, on a bend sable, three mullets or
13. Hugh, 3rd Lord Clifford (d.1732)		Chequy or and azure, a fess gules
14. Elizabeth Blount	(co-heir) of Edward Blount	as before
15. James, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar		Argent, a fess and in chief three lozenges sable
16. Lady Barbara Talbot	dau or sister of George, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury	Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or
17. Hugh, 2nd Lord Clifford		as before
18. Anne Preston (d.1734)	(co-heir) of Sir Thomas Preston of Furness	Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last a cinque-foil or
19. Edward Blount	Sir George Blount	as before
20. Anne Guise	Sir John Guise bt, MP for Gloucs	Gules, six lozenges cojoined vair 3, 3 and 1
21. Edward Henry, 1st Earl of Lichfield		Argent, a fess between three cresents sable
22. Lady Charlotte Fitzroy	Charles II by Barbara Villiers	Quarterly, 1 and 4. France and England quarterly, 2 Scotland, 3 Ireland, the whole debruised by a baton sinister ermine
23. Sir John Hales		Gules, three arrows, two and one points downwards argent
24. Mary Katherine Bellings	Sir Richard Bellings Kt	Argent, a cross between 4 cross crosslets fitchee gules
25. Henry, 6th Lord Arundell of Wardour (1694–1746)		Sable, six marlets, 3, 2 and 1 argent
26. Elizabeth Eleanor	(heir of) Baron Raymond Everage of Liege, Baron of the Holy Roman Empire	Gules, a fess wavy between 3 estoiles pierced argent
27. Richard Bellings Arundell	Sir Richard Bellings Kt	"?" Quarterly, 1 and 4 Bellings (as before), 2 and 3 Arundell (as before)
28. Anne Gage	Joseph Gage Esq	Quarterly, 1 and 4, per saltire azure and argent, a saltire gules; 2 and 3, azure, a sun in splendour or
29. Benedict Conquest, of Houghton Conquest Esq		Quarterly argent and sable, in chief a label of three points gules
30. Anne Birch	Rev. John Birch, Rector of Houghton Conquest	Azure, three fleurs-de-lys and a canton argent
31. Thomas Markham (b.1665)		Azure, a chief or, and issuant therefrom a demi-lion rampant gules, all within a bordure argent
32. Catherine Constable	Philip Constable Esq	Barry of six or and azure