A Second Letter to the Bishop of Exeter

A layman writes to a bishop arguing that the contested Privy Council judgment did not breach ecclesiastical rules, and examines the legal nature of the Duplex Querela. He traces historical metropolitan jurisdiction, distinguishes the two separate stages—determining whether an Archbishop may entertain the complaint and the Archbishop's subsequent discretionary institution after personally examining the clerk—and contends that Privy Council remittal compels the Archbishop to exercise judgment rather than to institute as a ministerial act. He supports this reading with procedural examples and practical objections to relying solely on a bishop's earlier examination.