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

When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was then created Baron Halsbury and appointed lord chancellor, thus forming a remarkable exception to the rule that no criminal lawyer ever reaches the woolsack.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various