Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
This is spot on. Now imagine the next generation with their bordures ratched 90* around to the right, with the top half of the shields white with the bottom half "coloured". Another generation and imagine the shields with quartered bordures. That's 13 distinct families descending from the third son of the original armiger before altering the line of partition on the bordure. PHEW!

And to think John Stodart did this before the invention of computers.
To quote one of Basil Rathbone's cronies in The Court Jester: "The man [was] pure genius."

I have TONS of other questions, but I feel I can wait until the book that you so kindly recommended arrives and look for answers there before bringing them here. This decision may have something to do with the fact that different lines of partition are much harder for me to draw than bordures!

Thank you, Scott and Sandy, for humouring me; your responses and the time you took to provide them are greatly appreciated!