woolsack

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A Royal Commission, made up of five peers appointed by the King, take their places on the woolsack dressed in red ermine robes and black and two-pointed, bicorner hats.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

Baroness Hayman chairs debates from the traditional woolsack, offers advice on procedural matters and acts as an ambassador for the work of the House.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then, if Selborne resigns the woolsack, and it becomes necessary to choose a Chancellor for his debating power?

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron