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memorandum of agreement re cornice of wndow 1882 (S813)

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Actual Text:	Copy of agreement re cornice of window An agreement made this 31st day of August 1882, between Marie Stacey of Maidstone in the County of Kent, widow, as to one moiety and John Richard Ramsbottom Isherwood Maidstone aforesaid esquire as to the other moiety as agents for and on behalf of themselves and other the owners respectively of the Crown Inn and lands thereto belonging in the parish of Staplehurst in the said county of Kent of the one part and Nathan Weston of Staplehurst aforesaid Grocer of the other part. Whereas the said Nathan Weston has lately erected a shop on his lands adjoining the Crown Inn aforesaid and extending beyond the present frontage of the said Inn and in doing so has encroached on the said Crown Inn and lands thereto belonging by erecting a cornice to his said shop which overhangs part of the land belonging to the said Crown Inn and has also opened a window in his said shop which overlooks the land in front of the said Inn and in consideration of the respective owners of the said Crown Inn and lands forbearing to proceed against the said Nathan Weston for such encroachment and to block the light to and views from such windows he has agreed to enter into the agreement hereinafter contained. Now these present witness that for the consideration aforesaid the said Nathan Weston hereby agrees that he will whenever required by the owners of the said Crown Inn and land for of either of the said moieties whereof remove the said cornice to his said shop and also that he will on the first day of January in every year pay to the said Marie Stacey and John Richard Ramsbottom Isherwood or other the said occupiers of the said Crown Inn and premises and the respective heirs and assigns such owners the sum of five shillings in equal moieties for the free and uninterrupted use of his said Windows and as an acknowledgement of the rights of the said owners in relation thereto and to the interest that no rights of light or air or other rights in respect of such windows shall run by lapse of time or otherwise as against the owners for the time being of the Crown in aforesaid or any or other of them the first payment of such rent to be made on the first day of January next. The cost of and incidental to this agreement to be paid by the said Nathan Weston As witness the hands of the said parties this day and year first above written. Witness to the signature of Nathan Weston Henry Woolgar, Staplehurst Marie Stacey JRR Isherwood Nathan Weston
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