He had listened at the door and heard Godfrey’s name mentioned, and one of the party had threatened to kick him downstairs.[236] Several important witnesses were called for the defence. Mary Tilden, the niece of Dr. Gauden, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Broadstreet, gave evidence that Hill was at home on the evening of the murder and the following nights, when he was accused of being busy with the body, and that the corpse was never brought to their lodgings. The judges continually bullied and sneered at the witnesses. The room in which Prance said the body was laid was described by Sir Robert Southwell as “an extraordinary little place.” Mrs. Broadstreet said that it was impossible for a corpse to be placed there without their knowledge. On this Mr. Justice Wild told her that it was very suspicious, and Dolben remarked, “It is well you are not indicted.” The hostile attitude of the court was not mollified when it appeared that there was some confusion in the evidence of both witnesses. Mary Tilden stated that during the time when they were in town she had never been out of the lodgings after eight o’clock in the evening. “When were you out of town?” asked Mr. Justice Jones. “In October,” the witness answered. The judge pointed out that October was just the month in question. Mistress Tilden said that she had made a mistake; she had meant to say that they were out of town in September. She said too that there was only one key to the door of the lodgings; but Prance declared, and was not contradicted, that in her examination before the Duke of Monmouth, Mrs. Broadstreet had admitted that there were several. The latter made the mistake of saying that Hill occupied the rooms until a fortnight after Michaelmas, whereas she had before sworn, as Sir Robert Southwell testified, that he left them in the first week in October.[237] The workman who had been employed at Hill’s new house in Stanhope Street proved that he had been in Hill’s company from nine to two in the afternoon of Saturday, October 12, and a neighbour that Hill had been at his house from five to seven o’clock on the same evening.[238] Green called for his defence his maid, his landlord, and the landlord’s wife. The maid testified that Green was always at home before nine o’clock at night; James Warrier and his wife that he was within doors in their company till after ten o’clock on the night of October 12. Mrs. Warrier however made the mistake of saying that this was a fortnight after Michaelmas day, which it was not, and so raised a doubt that the evidence was directed to a time a week later than the date in question.[239] The most weighty evidence for the defence was produced by Berry in the persons of the sentries who had kept guard at the gate of Somerset House on the night of Wednesday, October 16. On that night Prance swore that Berry had opened the gate to let the sedan chair containing Godfrey’s corpse pass out. From seven