[antir-heralds] can you charge a quarter?

[Owen ap Morgan]

Ursula Whitcher wrote:
> The SCA's Glossary of Terms lists the charged canton as reserved to 
> people with augmentations of arms.  What about the quarter (a peripheral
>  charge like a canton, occupying 1/4 of the field)?  Is there any reason
>  that a quarter can't be charged?

"Argent, issuant from dexter chief a leopard's head and dexter foreleg 
sable, armed and orbed argent, on a sinister quarter gules a phoenix 
enflamed Or.

First of all, this is an augmentation of the Ruger trademark. You cannot 
have charged cantons or quarters, either dexter or sinister, with straight 
lines of division."
   Feb. 1980 LOAR, Meridies returns, Daemon Greysteel

It appears this may have been the first word on the subject in the SCA, so 
that from the start the quarter was not distinguished from the canton with 
regard to the reservation.  Despite its antiquity, I am not aware of it 
having been reversed except to the extent of allowing charged cantons as 
augmentations.

Owen ap Morgan