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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43274	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.	Hobry, Marie, d. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing H1384; ESTC R34455	22,437	46

home with his Mother upon occasion of speaking with an English Man that this Examinate could not Understand her Son speaking both French and English the Youth being an Apprentice to the said Dubois and of Age Thirteen Years and an half This Examinate took her Son with her home to her Lodgings in Expectation of the Englishman before spoken of who did not come This Examinate fetched her Son on purpose to have his Assistance about the conveying away of her Husband's Body and this Examinate told her Son of a great Calamity that was fallen out which the Child was very much surprized at and being shewed the Body ready to sink down at the Spectacle But this Examinate put the Boy to an Oath forty times over to say nothing of it and he swore he would be torn in Pieces first And asked this Examinate Mother What will you do shift for your self and go out of the Land for if you are once taken you 'l never get off This Informant answering She had no Mony for a Voyage and she could think of no way better than to cut off the Quarters and disperse the Parts in several Places so as People should not know whose Body it was Besides That she her self could carry them off and dispose of them much better her Son saying That he was afraid to meddle with the carrying of them This Examinate hereupon about Four or Five that Afternoon having taken a Resolution of cutting off the Quarters to make it more Portable took a Knife and first cut off the Head after that the Arms and then the Thighs and last the Leggs some Drops of Blood coming from the Neck but very little or none at all from the rest The Quarters being cut off by Eight in the Evening or thereabouts this Examinate bethought her self how to convey them away and first took up the Body which she put into a Piece of Linnen and carried it before her in her Petticoat The Examinate passed through Castle-Street into Drury-Lane and thence into Parker's-Lane and so among the Dung-hills and there left it her Son following to give notice if any Body came The Body being thus disposed of this Examinate with her Son went back and took the Thighs in a Linnen Cloth this Examinate carrying them likewise and her Son following in like manner as before and this Examinate threw them into a House of Office at the Savoy and immediately went back with her Son again and fetched the Leggs and the Arms her Son following her to the Savoy again and put them also into the House of Office. The Quarters being carried away as above and only the Head remaining this Examinate advised with her Son What they should do with the Head who advised her to throw it into the Water But this Examinate was then afraid it would be found and known And said She would rather cast it into the House of Office of a Friend of hers meaning De Fresneau a Fringe-Maker over against the Savoy to which Place she went accordingly her Son following her and cast it into the Second House of Office there being two belonging to the Place And saith That upon Tuesday Morning last Mary Potter or Pottron the Daughter of this Examinate came to this Examinates Lodgings and in Discourse said something to this Purpose What is become of Hobry where is he Yard says he is gone for the Indies This Examinate made Answer That she had not seen him for Four or Five Days The Examinate put her Daughter off at first but came soon after to tell her the Truth of the Matter And saith That this Examinate thereupon told her Daughter the whole Truth of the Matter as is reported above her said Daughter ready to fall down at the hearing of it and transported with Astonishment asking this Examinate What they should do to keep it Private this Examinate charging her to say nothing of it and the Daughter replying That she would be burned first but that if it were any other Person than her Mother she would discover it her self but since her Mother was concerned she would never open her Lips of it And this Examinate being interrogated How it came to pass that she this Examinate being of the Communion of the Church of Rome came to throw the Quarters of her Husband into a House of Office at the Savoy which was a way to bring so great a Scandal upon the Religion she professed by laying the Murther at the Door of the Professors of that Religion This Examinate maketh Answer That she had no Thoughts in what she did as to that Matter more than to part the Limbs and the Body and hoped the Water might carry them away And being interrogated If any other Person whatsoever beside the Persons herein named was privy to this Practice upon her Husband or assisting to the Conveying away of the Body this Examinate answereth That there was no Person privy to the Secret nor any Person assisting to it besides the Persons within mentioned Jo. Ridley Mary Hobry Capt ' Die Anno supradict ' coram me Ro. L'Estrange I have heard the Information of Mrs. Mary Hobry consisting of Two Sheets and one Page read in English and have signed the Papers and do hereby declare That I have truly Expounded them in French to Mrs. Mary Hobry according to the best of my Knowledge Jo. Ridley J'avoue que ce qui est cerit sur ces deux feuilles de Papier une page est veritable selon ce que Monsieur Ridley me l'a expliquee en Francoise Marie Hobry POSTSCRIPT HEre 's a Just and a Punctual Account of all the Informations in the Cause of Mary Hobry and I do here Appeal to the Informants themselves That I have dealt Candidly and Conscientiously both in the Publishing and in the Taking of them Nay to prevent the uttermost Spite of Envy and Calumny they had almost all of them as many Witnesses to the Fairness of them as the Room would hold where I took them And so far from Extorting any Evidence That the Mother's and the Son 's were purely Confession The Woman 't is true was examined in Private for fear of any unseasonable Discovery of what she might declare But before I put so much as one Question to her I rendred her so particular an Account of the Points in Evidence against her that she gave her self for Lost without any Hope either of an Acquittal or of a Pardon and so frankly told me from Point to Point the whole Series of the Narration as it is here set down But still that which stuck with other People stuck with Me That is to say How all this could be done without Complices Now the Boy 's Story lay as yet in the Dark and his doubling in his Tale gave manifestly to understand That there was a Mystery still Vndiscovered He denyed all upon Friday Upon Saturday his Mother declared her self Upon Sunday the Boy denyed all again 'till upon the Hint given him of his dining with his Mother her drawing the Curtain of the Bed and shewing him the Body of his Murdered Father upon that Monday when the Body was quartered he fell a Weeping and told an orderly Story without any Mincing of Matters from the very Act of quartering him to the disposing of the Body the Limbs and the Head into those Places where they were afterwards found This Relation of his is so agreeable to his Mother's in the Order and Manner of it that it is almost impossible to be False And to any one that duly considers the Bulk and Weight of the Trunk of an ordinary Man without either Head Arms Thighs or Leggs a Woman's carrying such a Burthen in the Truss of her Petticoat will be found no greater a Wonder than he shall see ten times over in oue Days Walk betwixt the Old Exchange and Westminster In the Womans Story I have done all the Right that Honestly I could to the Compassionable Condition of an Unhappy Wretch but without Extenuating the Horror of the Wickedness I have since that time Enquir'd into the Humour and Character of the Husband and his Acquainance report him at all hands to have been a Libertine and Debauchee to the Highest Degree but Drunk or Sober without any Malice This is in Fine an Impartial Report of the Case It falls to the Midwife's Lot to Suffer Alone but if she had stood her Tryal so that the Evidence against her had been left to take its Course it would not have gone much better with some of her Companions than it did with the Miserable Creature her self THE END