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Woolsack

,—in the House of Lords, the seat of the Judges. After a long research I have at length ascertained the meaning of this custom. It is to remind them of their duty to their sovereign, viz. that they should do all in their power to keep the staple commodity of the country under.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Woolsack