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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