This led, as might be expected, not to thewoolsack but to the authorship of Coningsby.
Four other Lords Commissioners, similarly attired, are seated beside him on a bench situated between the Woolsack and the Throne.
The former had been Chancellor when the order was made for the engraving of the new Seal; the latter had occupied the Woolsack when the new Seal was finished and ordered to be put into use.
Another instance of the same kind is supposed to have occurred when Lord Lyndhurst was on the Woolsack and a noble lord spoke at considerable length to an audience of even smaller proportions.
If the Speaker of the Lords had been expected to conduct himself in a fashion similar to that of the Speaker of the Commons, Thurlow's behaviour on the Woolsack would certainly have given rise to adverse criticism.
On reaching the Woolsack the neophyte falls upon one knee and presents to the Lord Chancellor, and receives back from him, his patent of peerage and his writ of summons, both of which are read aloud by the Reading Clerk.
In the Upper House, the Woolsack is treated with similar deference, no lord knowingly passing between it and any other lord who is speaking, or between it and the table.
In 1830, Brougham took his seat on the Woolsackas a Commoner, and at least one other Chancellor has since followed his example.
The Lord Chancellor of England is seated upon a woolsack because it was upon a woolsack that this fair land rose to prosperity.
At last, Sir Robert Atkyns, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a commoner, took his seat upon the woolsack as Speaker, appointed by the Crown.
As the last absconded to avoid impeachment by the House of Commons, Littleton, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, “was placed on the woolsack as Speaker.
Here, again, we learn that “serious inconvenience was experienced from the occupier of the woolsack not being a member of the House.
Here again the historian records, that, while he remained a commoner, “he took his place on the woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, and without a right to debate or vote.
Lord Brougham had taken his seat on the Woolsack as Lord High Chancellor on the afternoon of this day, the 22nd of November.
In the year 1682, the Woolsack Tavern in Newgate Market attracted great attention, owing to a wonderful phenomenon there exhibited, and set forth in the following handbill from the Sloane Collection, No.
From such garrets many men of less parts than his have made their way to the woolsack or to the episcopal bench.
Rolle was greatly exasperated, and after he sat down went up to him on the Woolsack and said, 'My Lord, I wish you to know that I have the greatest contempt for you both in this House and out of it.
If he would only marry his cousin one might say that thewoolsack was won.
That he would live to sit on the woolsackwas now almost a certainty to the dear old lady.
The theory is that the woolsack which comprises the presiding official's seat is not within the chamber proper[183] and that the official himself, as such, is not a member of the body.
The Government peers occupy the benches on the right of the woolsack and the Opposition those on the left, while members who prefer to remain neutral take their places on the cross benches between the table and the bar.
I should take the woolsack to be not a very comfortable seat, though I suppose it was originally designed to be the most comfortable one that could be contrived, in view of the Chancellor's much sitting.
In front of the woolsack there is another still larger ottoman, on which he might be at full length,--for what purpose intended, I know not.
As for Sydney, he was still her hero of heroes, who had come to their rescue when their natural protector was done to death, and whose elevation to the woolsack might be expected at any moment.
In front of the woolsack there is another still larger ottoman, on which he might lie at full length--for what purpose intended, I know not.
The woolsack is between these two divisions of sofas, in the middle passage of the floor--a great square seat, covered with scarlet, and with a scarlet cushion set up perpendicularly for the Chancellor to lean against.
I should take the woolsack to be not a very comfortable seat, tho I suppose it was originally designed to be the most comfortable one that could be contrived.
The noble and learned lord on the woolsack said, that when the observation is mode that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, it is meant that that Christianity is the Church of England.
The noble and learned Lord on the Woolsack (Lord Brougham) has referred to a certain Act of Parliament which passed, giving certain privileges to the Jews, and which he said, was in the very form of words proposed in this bill.
Notwithstanding his illustrious descent, Simon Harcourt raised himself to the woolsack by his own exertions, and was in no degree indebted to powerful relatives for his elevation.
By birth as humble[16] as any layman who before or since his time has held the seals, Thomas Parker raised himself to the woolsack by great talents and honorable industry.
Tho' now upon the woolsack placed, With wealth, with power, with title graced, Once nearer was our lot.
Johnson, and after his elevation to the woolsack overwhelm Gibbon with hospitable civilities.
In 1829, when Lyndhurst was occupying the woolsack for the first time, and Eldon was longing to recover the seals, the latter presented a petition from the Tailors' Company at Glasgow against Catholic Belief.
The new parliament met on the 14th of January when Mr. Manners Sutton was reelected speaker, and Chief Baron Richards took his seat on the woolsack pro tempore, in consequence of the lord chancellor's indisposition.
When the woolsack has been reached there comes an end of doubt, and a beginning of ease.
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