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A67665 A Warning-piece to all married men and women being the full confession of Mary Hobry the French midwife, who murdered her husband on the 27th of January 1687/8 (as also the cause thereof), for which she receiv'd the sentence to be burnt alive, and on Friday the second day of March between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning she was drawn upon a sledge to Leicester-fields, where she was burnt to ashes. 1688 (1688) Wing W935; ESTC R33557 2,914 1

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A WARNING-PIECE TO All Married Men and Women Being the Full CONFESSION of MARY HOBRY The FRENCH Midwife Who Murdered her Husband on the 27 th of January 1687 8. As also the Cause thereof For which she receiv'd Sentence to be Burnt alive And on Friday the Second Day of March between the Hours of Ten and Eleven in the Mornings she was drawn upon a Sledge to Leicester-Fields where she was burnt to Ashes ALL you that Married Men and Women be Give Ear unto this woful Tragedy That now befell a French man and his Wife Who liv'd together in continual Strife One Denis Hobry about Four years since Took to his Wife a Woman Born a French Whom he Abus'd at such inhumane rate That she a thousand times wish'd him ill Fate And thought within herself to end the Strife If she were forc'd to take away his Life The cause that mov'd him to those Tyrannies Was her aversion to his Villanies At length into a private Room she fled Intending never to Embrace his Bed Where she remain'd four Months and then by chance Her Husband went beyond the Seas to France But when return'd he Courted her again Tho first he feared it was all in vain He swore a thousand times to please her Mind And prove a Husband faithful chaste and kind His Words prevail'd so much that she did yield Upon these Terms to give him up the Field That he would first confess before a Priest And two Witnesses more as he own'd Christ To be his God she was his lawful Wife And would no more vex her during his Life Father Gasper wrote this every Word Who placed it afterwards upon Record But scarce two days or three at most were past When he on her the old Reproaches cast In two months time he went to France again And gave the Woman just cause to complain For nothing that he could come at or find But he brought with him and left none behind When three months passed he returned home And with dissembling Words to her did come Whom she receiv'd expecting his good Will But soon found him to be the same Man still She often beg'd of him with weeping eyes A Separation or that otherwise He would be civil who gave this Reply He would her ruine which caus'd her to cry And think to take his Life or lose her own Which she did often tell him in her moan Long she endur'd at last she told her Case To Neighbours that dwelt near about the place And said she fear'd Mischief would be the end Of his ill Actions or he soon would mend Three months being pass'd one time she took a Knife With an intent to take away his life But God did then bellow on her his grace Which made her give her Husband longer space So twice she did intend upon her Bed To stab her Husband and to leave him dead And to Himself she did declare her mind Who dared her in a most foolish kind Now he was going from her into France And she told him If that it were his chance E're to come back and follow the old Rule She must become unto him something cruel Who promis'd her most earnestly and swore He never would abuse her as before In three weeks after he return'd again Unto his Wife who did him entertain And said dear Hobry welcome thou to me So that you henceforth a good Husband be I will said he taking a thousand Oaths If you 'll me furnish presently with Cloaths She answered Him The Times were very dear And hardly she her honest Debts could clear He hearing her most wickedly did curse And swear he would to her be ten times worse Than e're he was who then this Answer had From her That he already made her mad For that it was most commonly his way When he did want to threaten night and day If she could not him furnish no Excuse Could get place with him but still her abuse One Yard to her did openly declare That for her Ruine her Husband did prepare Thus they continued in the same degree To th' Twenty Seventh of last January When she about Ten of the Clock at night Took her Repose bearing no kind of Spight Or Malice to her Husband as before But open for his Coming left the door Who came at Five a Clock next Morning home And did in Rage and Gholer fret and fome And to his Wife as dead as in a grave With Sleep a blow upon the Stomach gave Which made her start What you are drunk said he If I am not 't is like you are quoth she He answer'd I with Rogues all night did sit Which made me mad and you must pay for it Whereupon he gave her another Blow Upon the Breast which did renew her Woe To weeping she immediately did fall And he then took her in his Arms with all His force till he did stop her Vital Breath So that she wished for a sudden Death He forc'd on her such barbarous Violence In spight of what she did in her Defence Forcing much Blood from her she cried out To her Land-lady who did not hear the Shout Unto the Neighbours I 'll said she complain Wherewith he threw her on the Bed again And bit her like a Dog kept in a yard Shall this said she be always my Reward Yea answer'd he be sure thyself to keep Well and with that he fell in a dead Sleep Which she beholding and feeling the smart Of his ill usage to her in her Heart What shall I do said she must I now Die Or Murther him that makes me thus to Cry With that she started full of Wrath and Evil Being thereto Spurr'd by th' instinct of the Devil And pull'd his Garter off his Leg in hast Being a Pack-thread which she thought no wast And doubling it about his Neck she drew The ends so fest that she him quickly Slew But soon Repenting hop'd he was Alive And thought that Brandy would him then Revive When all was done her labour was in Vain For Life once lost can ne'er be had again Till Monday following the Corps was there For she could not convey it any where Untill she brought her Son out of the Strand Who durst not speak against her 〈◊〉 Command When he beheld the Corps lye at this rate He did bemoan his Mothers wretched Fate What will you do you must said he now Die Or out of England you must quickly Flie She told him Money she had none in hand That would buy Passage to another Land My way said she is to Cut off his Head His Thighs and Arms now that he is Dead And none can tell what Country man he 's then Though he were found by the most wise of Men. At Four or Five past Noon this Cursed Wife Cut off her Husband's Head with a sharp Knife His Arms and Thighs came off his Legs again And though his Neck did Bleed he felt no Pain At Eight a Clock this Night through Castle-street And Drury-lane she went and none did meet Until at Parkers lane to please her will She laid the Corps near by a nasty Dung-hill She did in Linnen next the Thighs convey Into a Privy that 's in the Savoy Where she again the Arms and Legs did cast Nothing remaining but the Head at last She then advised with her Son to know Where they might closely put the Head also Who said the Water was for it the Place But she then fear'd some Man might know his Face And she at last resolved to this end To throw 't into the Privy of her Friend A Fringe-maker that lives by the Savoy For they do still two Privies there imploy The Corps being found and all the truth well known She did her self no word of it disown But did confess that no untruth is here For God will not let Murtherers go clear She is now Burn'd and beggs of all Mankind And Women too Wisdom by her to find With Allowance LONDON Printed and Sold by George Croom at the Blue-Ball in Thames-street near Baynard's-Castle 1688.