River Lark Act 1698

River Lark Act 1698
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long titleAn Act for makeing the River Larke alias Burn Navigable.
Citation11 Will. 3. c. 22
(Ruffhead: 11 & 12 Will. 3. c. 22)
Dates
Royal assent11 April 1700[1]
Text of statute as originally enacted

River Lark Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 22) was an act of Parliament to facilitate making the River Lark navigable from Bury St Edmunds to Mildenhall in Suffolk.[2]

The act empowered Henry Ashley (junior) of Eaton Socon to improve the river to make it navigable from Long Common, through Mildenhall to East-gate Bridge in Bury St Edmunds.[3]

References

  1. ^ Addy, David. "St Edmundsbury Local History - The River Lark Navigation after 1600". www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk. David Addy. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. ^ "William III, 1698-9: An Act for makeing the River Larke alias Burn Navigable. [Chapter XXII. Rot. Parl. 11 Gul. III.p.4. n.1.] | British History Online". Statutes of the Realm. 79: 615–621. 1820.
  3. ^ Cay, John (1739). An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use from Magna Charta, in the Ninth Year of King Henry III. to the Eleventh Year of His Present Majesty King George II. Inclusive. London: His Majesty's printer, and by the assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq; and sold by R. Gosling, at the Crown and Mitre against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street.