Whether Dorset or Major Hart had the honour of being her Charles I is a point open to dispute.

But the evidence in favour of Dorset's claim seems to me to preponderate.

See the suppressed passage of Burnet, i.

263.; and Pepys's Diary, Oct.26.

1667.] [Footnote 317: Pepys's Diary; Prior's dedication of his poems to the Duke of Dorset; Johnson's Life of Dorset; Dryden's Essay on Satire, and Dedication of the Essay on Dramatic Poesy.