woolsack

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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

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

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bacon, always alive to his master's interests, urged upon the king the danger of elevating the Chief Justice to the woolsack, long before the vacancy occurred.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various