Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal, Friday 21 April 1797.

Kent. To be sold by auction, at the "Chequers Inn," Molash, on Wednesday the 3rd day of May next, between the hours of 1 and 3 (unless previously disposed of by private contract of which notice will be given in this paper.)

The following freehold estates in five lots.

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Lot 2. A brick Messuage, formerly the "Red Lion" Alehouse, with the garden and apportenances thereto belonging, situate near the west end of Challock Lees, in the occupation of James Andrews, tenant from year to year. Possession to be held at Michaelmas next.

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For further particulars apply to Mr. Delasaux, Attorney at Law, New Rents, Ashford, or to Mr. Edward Boys, of Willesbourgh, either of whom will treat for the sale any of the lots by private contract.

Canterbury Journal - Saturday 6 December 1856

Challock. Suspicious Death.

Rumour, for the past day or two, has been busy in our village, relative to the sudden death of an old man named Charles Tamsett. Of course, much reliance cannot be placed upon the different and contradictory reports which are circulating in the place: but we are enabled to state that the poor old man was taken ill about an hour after drinking some porter at home that showed some strange symptoms, hardly compatible with any known disease, and that he expired on the succeeding evening. The surgeon, however, who was called in to attend the deceased, has given it as his opinion that death was the result of natural causes; but he did not specify the disease which he supposed to have terminated the man's life and in consequence of other circumstances having transpired, which prudence compels us to omit at present, the overseer of the parish has placed himself in communication with Mr. Delasaux. The occurrence has created great excitement in the village, from the long period that the deceased has resided in it, and from the respectable and quiet character which he has always maintained.

An inquest was held on the body on Thursday, when the evidence of Mr. Henry Wildash surgeon, of Chilham, was quite sufficient to account for the cause of death. He stated that, on opening the body of the deceased, he found extensive disease of the right lung especially, and fatty degeneration of the heart, that the kidneys and spleen had more or less of the same appearance and, on examining the stomach, he found it empty and in a healthy state, which would not have been the case had a mineral poison been taken. From the emptiness of the stomach, he also judged that there was an entire absence of any narcotic poison. He was quite satisfied that deceased died from the long-standing diseases before described.

The wife of the deceased stated that she had been married to him upwards of twenty-three years and had had six children by him. In consequence of certain statements that had been made with reference to the death of her husband, she refused to have him buried until a post-mortem examination had taken place. She had stated this to the clergyman of the parish, and that was the cause of the present inquiry.

Two witnesses testified that the deceased had for many years suffered from asthma.

The jury returned a verdict “Natural death.”

Charles Tamsett was 45 years, not very old. The body was taken to the "Chequers" for the inquest as there were few public buildings then. His widow remarried the following year.