Green Cloth, BOARD OF, a committee of the royal household of England, attached to the department of the lord steward (see STEWARD), who presides over its deliberations. Its duties are to examine and pass all the accounts of the household, and to correct all offenders within the verge or jurisdiction of the palace, which extends to two hundred yards beyond the gates.
Green Cloth, BOARD OF,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 404
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