River Lark Act 1698

River Lark Act 1698

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for makeing the River Larke alias Burn Navigable.
Citation	11 Will. 3 c. 22 [a] 11 & 12 Will. 3. c. 22 [b]
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	11 April 1700 [1]
Commencement	16 November 1699 [c]
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted

River Lark Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 22) ^[a] is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 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]

Notes

1. This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm .
2. This is the citation in The Statutes at Large .
3. Start of session.

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.