Excerpt from The Manuscripts of the House of Lords, Vol. 1: 1693 1695 The King, in his Speech from the Throne, made no conceal ment of these misfortunes, as a national disgrace, and while urging the importance of a suitable supply being voted for the vigorous prosecution of the war, recommended an enquiry into the late miscarriages at sea. This question was taken up first by the Commons, who voted (1 7 Nov.) that there had been a notorious and treacherous mismanagement in the fish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.