duplex querelan.

1713 E. Gibson Codex Juris Eccl. Anglicani xxxiii. viii. 823 He may appeal to the immediate Superiour..and thereupon obtain an Instrument directed to the Ordinary, and called Duplex Querela.

1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 113 When the bishop doth..refuse, or unduly delay to admit and institute a clerk to the church to which he is presented, the clerk may have his remedy against the bishop in the ecclesiastical court..complaining to the judge of appeals thereof; the judge is wont to write to the bishop in the form of law, and this writing they call a duplex querela. This duplex querela is to contain a monition to the bishop.

1845 H. W. Cripps Pract. Treat. Laws Church & Clergy v. i. 480 Where a refusal is appealed against, the dean of the arches, or other judge or judges of the court of appeal, sends a letter to the bishop so refusing, which letter or rescript is called duplex querela.

1895 J. Williams Briefless Ballads 62 Aid me, Muses!..for duplex querela is an uninviting theme.

1931 Church Times 20 Feb. 223/1 The Clerk might have commenced proceedings by Duplex querela in the Arches Court, but for weighty reasons this was turned down.