An Act for improving the North Level Drainage, and for other Purposes relating to the Level.
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for settling the draining of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, whereby it was enacted that William Earl of Bedford (Son and Heir of Francis Earl of Bedford), and the Adventurers and Participants of the said Earl Francis and Earl William, their Heirs and Assigns, should be a Body Politic and Corporate in Deed and Name, and have Succession for ever by the Name of the Governo...