This report was presented before the Court of the Great Sessions at Conwy on 6 April 1795 by John Hughes, coroner for the county of Caernarfonshire. The coroner reported upon two separate 'inquisitions' or post-mortems which had taken place in the county. The first 'inquisition', held on 27 November 1794, concerned the case of Nathaniel Humphreys from Aber-erch who had been found dead in a brook called Rhyd y Gwichiad. Humphreys had died on the night of Monday, 24 November 1794, on his way back from Pwllheli where he had been drinking. The coroner reported that he 'casually and by misfortune' fell into the brook by the roadside: the tide was coming in at the time and Humphreys later drowned and suffocated.
A second 'inquisition' had been held at Plas Pentir in the parish of Bangor on 4 December 1794 following the discovery of the body of William Jones at Perfeddgoed Pistill. 'No marks of violence' were found on his body, but the coroner concluded that since Jones was 'subject to fits'.