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Updated: May 26, 2025
Then the under-clerk knelt down again before the fourth woolsack, and the Lord Chancellor said, "Soit fait comme il est désiré." This terminated the royal sitting.
'Too holy for a King, said the seneschal. 'He looked like a woolsack across a horse when my Lord of Warwick led him down Cheapside; and only the rabble cried out "Long live King Harry!" but some scoffed and said they saw a mere gross monk with a baby face where they had been wont to see a comely prince full of manhood, with a sword instead of beads. 'His son will please them, said Musgrave.
"We shall have a virgin Lord Chancellor on the woolsack," said Gilbert, "and then may God have mercy on all poor litigants!" "We really ought to go to bed," Ninian protested. "Not yet," Henry exclaimed. He had recovered from his feeling of dejection, and he was eager to retrieve the good opinion which he thought he had lost.
SIR THOMAS WILDE, who has just been promoted to the Woolsack, as Baron Truro, we learn from the Illustrated News, was born in 1782. After practicing as an attorney, he was called to the bar by the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, the 7th February, 1817. He joined the Western Circuit, and soon rose into considerable practice.
I heard him as I sat my horse beside his staff speak exultantly to those around him, and ask whether these fine fellows could possibly be beaten by mercenary half-hearted hirelings. 'What say you, Wade! he cried. 'Are we never to see a smile on that sad face of yours? Do you not see a woolsack in store for you as you look upon these brave fellows?
No it is want of imagination, a phlegmatic habit, an excess of false complaisance and good-nature ... Common humanity and justice are little better than vague terms to him: he acts upon his immediate feelings and least irksome impulses. The King's hand is velvet to the touch the Woolsack is a seat of honour and profit! That is all he knows about the matter.
The Woolsack, the Ministerial, the Opposition Benches infandum! infandum! And yet why is the thing impossible? Was not every soul, or rather every body, of these Guardians of our Liberties, naked, or nearly so, last night; "a forked Radish with a head fantastically carved"? And why might he not, did our stern fate so order it, walk out to St.
I see thy sire before me in all his strength and weakness; loving and honouring the King as a sort of lord mayor of the empire, or chief of the board of trade venerating the Commons, for the acts regulating the export trade and respecting the Peers, because the Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack." "Mine was a likeness, Rashleigh; yours is a caricature.
It was not when he closed his magnificent argument in behalf of Dartmouth College, not when he addressed the intelligence of New England at Bunker Hill, not when he demolished Governor Hayne, not when he sat on the woolsack with Lord Brougham, not when he was entertained by Louis Philippe, that the proudest emotions swelled in his bosom, but when he learned that he had prevented a war with England, for he knew that England and America could not afford to fight; that it would be a fight where gain is loss and glory is shame.
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. 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.
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