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A hellish murder committed by a French midwife on the body of her husband, Jan. 27, 1687/8 for which she was arraigned at the Old-Baily, Feb. 22, 1687/8, and pleaded guilty and the day following received sentence to be burnt.
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Hobry, Marie, d. 1688.
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Wing H1384; ESTC R34455
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Ill. This Examinate finding herself in this hopeless Condition and under frequent Temptations of putting some violent end to her Misfortunes she rather chose to make Tryal if she could prevail upon him to agree to a Final Separation and prest it upon him several times with great Earnestness but he still refused it with Outrages of Language and Actions telling this Examinate he would be the Ruine of her This Informant finding herself without Remedy in a Distraction of Thoughts and under the Affliction of Bodily Distempers contracted by her said Husband 's dissolute Course of Life her Frailty was no longer able to resist the Temptations of dangerous Thoughts sometimes this Examinate was thinking to go into some other Part of the World and leave him and other while she was tempted to think of Extremities either upon her Husband or upon Her self and often told her Husband plainly That she would Kill him if he followed that Course This Examinate having lamented her Condition to others of her acquaintance and telling them she was not able to live this course of Life and that Mischief would come on 't at last But after all these dangerous Words and Menaces this Examinate upon Recollection bethought her self of the Horridness of the Sin and by God's Grace was diverted from executing so wicked a Resolution And saith That this Examinate was transported about two or three Months since to that degree of Rage and Impatience that she took a Knife once with a Resolution to Kill her Husband but retracted and did not go forward with it And that she took the same Desperate Resolution again a matter of fifteen Days after proposing both times to do it in the Night but by the Grace of God she was then again restrained And saith That she this Examinate told her Husband in the Morning both these times the Resolution she had taken over Night to Kill him in his Bed but he made slight of it and told this Examinate she durst not do it And saith That on the very Evening before this Examinate's Husband went last into France this Examinate spake to her Husband to this effect Hobry you are now going into France pray bethink your self and lead a better Life for when you come back again if you Treat me as you did formerly I do not know what Extremities you may Provoke me to Whereupon he promis'd this Examinate with dreadful Oaths that he would be a good Husband to her The Husband of this Examinate returned out of France and came to this Informant's Lodgings about three Weeks since when this Informant received him after the following manner saying to him Hobry you are welcome and pray will you change your course of Life now that we may live Comfortably together Yes saith he upon condition you will put me in Cloaths and furnish me with what I want He having got Money in France and spent it to the last Farthing This Informant told him she could not supply him at that Rate for Times were hard and she had much ado to Live and pay Honest Debts This Examinate's Husbands replying to this effect If you do not do as I say I will be a worse Husband to you than ever I was This Examinate told him she did not know what she should do with him for his Barbarous Usages had made her Mad. And his way was so often as he asked any thing of this Informant that she could not supply him with he would abuse her and say he would make her repent of it And this Examinate hath been told by one Yard that her Husband said in his hearing That he would be the Destruction of her This was the Course of Life this Examinate led till this Thursday last was Sennight upon which day this Examinate had no Thought of offering any Violence to her Husband but went to Bed about her usual hour Ten a Clock leaving the Fore-door open for him when he should come home About Five in the Morning the Husband of this Examinate came in outragiously in Choler and more than half Drunk This Examinate was a-sleep till her Husband Wak'd her with a heavy Blow with his Fist upon her Stomach and said to her What! you are Drunk This Examinate Answering No you are Drunk you 'd never come home at Five a Clock in the Morning else you have been among base Company He made this Answer I have been among Bougres and Rogues that have made me Mad and you shall pay for 't whereupon he gave this Examinate another violent Blow upon the Breast With That this Examinate turn'd from him and fell a weeping And this Examinate declareth in the Presence of Almighty God That she had not as yet any Purpose or Thoughts of attempting upon his Life While this Examinate was weeping her Husband took her in his Arms and Press'd her so hard that she could not fetch her Breath and that the Blood started out of her Mouth Immediately upon this he attempted the Forcing of this Examinate to the most Unnatural of Villanies and acted such a Violence upon her Body in despite of all the Opposition that she could make as forc'd from her a great deal of Blood this Examinate crying out to her Landlady who was as she believes out of distance of hearing her This Examinate told him I will immediately Rise and Complain to the Neighbours Whereupon he took her Forcibly by the Arm and threw her down upon the Bed being before siting-up to rise and after this Bit her like a Dog c. this Examinate saying to him Am I to lead this Life for ever Yes and a worse too ere it be long you had best look to your self and upon these words he fell a-sleep Upon this Respite the Examinate lay in Torments both of Body and of Mind thinking with her self What will become of me What am I to do Here am I Threatned to be Murder'd and I have no way in the World to Deliver my self but by Beginning with him and immediately upon these Thoughts this Examinate started up and took one of his Garters which was de Fiscelle or Pack-thread put it double about his Neck et la noua en serrant de toute sa Force and so tyed it and drew it as hard as she could de sorte qu'il en estoit Estrangle dans un quart d' heure sans beaucoup de Resistance Insomuch that he was Choak'd with it in a Quarter of an Hour with little resistance The Body rested there till Monday only this Examinate took off the Pack-thread within a Quarter of an Hour after his Death and in hopes that he was not yet Dead repenting with all her Heart that she had been guilty of such a Heinous Sin and try'd Brandy to bring him to Life again Upon Monday Morning Jan. 30. 1687 / 8. this Examinate went to the House of Monsieur du Bois living in the Strand to desire him he would give leave for the Son of this Examinate to go