Middlemarch vocabulary

SECOND CLOWN I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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"[...] But she said law was nothing to her, and she wouldn't let her dear husband's corpse bide neglected for folks to stare at for all the crowners in England."

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

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“we’s hae a crowner’s ‘quest enow, at ahr folks’. One on ’em ’s a’most getten his finger cut off wi’ hauding t’ other fro’ stickin’ hisseln loike a cawlf. 

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)