woolsack

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At the end of her final day on the woolsack on Wednesday there was a break with usual Lords etiquette as she was cheered and clapped as business for the day ended.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2011

She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

From the overstuffed red woolsack,* the Lord Chancellor announced the vote: "184 lords are content, 193 lords are not content."

From Time Magazine Archive

And in less than a month after Mr. Horne was sent to jail, Thurlow was made Lord Chancellor of England, and sat on the woolsack in the House of Lords.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore