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.

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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 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.
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London :: Printed and sold by George Croom ...,
1688.
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Murder -- England.
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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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67665.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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LONDON, Printed and Sold by George Croom, at the Blue-Ball in Thames-street, near Baynard's-Castle. 1688.

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