_Scarfs worn by Clergymen_ (Vol. vii., pp. 143. 215.).--As MR. JEBB has
intervened voluntarily in this question, not merely as an inquirer or
reasoner, but as an _evidence_ to _facts_, I hope I may be allowed to ask
him his authority for the distinction "between broad and narrow scarfs."
After this assertion as to the _fact_, he adds his own personal authority
of having "in his boyhood _heard mention_ made of that distinction." As I
do not know his age, I would beg to ask _when_ and _where_ he heard that
_mention_; and to make my inquiry more clear, I would ask whether he has
any (and what) authority for the _fact_ of the distinction beyond having
"in his boyhood _heard mention_ of it?" We must get at the facts before we
can reason on them.