case head versus head February S c I ves pl SC post a husband in a letter to  his wife father say he do not choose to be a witness to her infirmity and  therefore during the time she live with her father will allow her pound a  quarter the wife have bring a bill for establish her separate maintenance move  to be pay pound be a year and a half arrear to keep her till the cause be hear  the husband have by his answer swear he be desirous of cohabit with her the  court in direct for the time pass a sum of money to be pay her will not order  it as arrear but pound in gross and say they shall not direct it for the  future the plaintiff the lady of sir Francis head bring her bill against her  husband to establish her separate maintenance pursuant to a agreement for that  purpose and move today that pound shall be pay her be a year and a half arrear  at pound a quarter to maintain her till the cause be hear the foundation for  the motion be that sir Francis head in write a letter to sir John boy the  father of the plaintiff and in that letter say that he have a great affection  for her but from her misfortune not her fault and which neither of they can  help he do not choose to be a witness of her infirmity and during the time she  life with her father will allow her pound a quarter sir Francis head by his  answer to the bill insist that he have request her to come home and cohabit  with he and be extreme desirous of it before the answer come in which be in  July last lady head upon fill article of the peace against her husband obtain  a order that he shall enter into a recognizance with surety for his good  behaviour Lord chancellor the two principal ground for bill of this kind be a  agreement for maintenance or a trust for this purpose vide atk and in atkins  either of these case the court will entertain as it for alimony and  maintenance and even atkins er p after a sentence in the ecclesiastical court  for it when the husband in order to evade it be go out of the kingdom will  upon a bill file by the wife grant a ne exeat royal power and I remember a  caseof Colemore versus Colemore S c cite atk before Lord chancellor king where  the husband have after a sentence for alimony make over his whole estate to  trustee and then go to the west Indies and upon a bill bring by the wife  against the trustee he direct they to pay her a considerable maintenance out  of the trust estate while the husband reside abroad as to whorwood versus  whorwood Charles Cas it be determine during the usurpation and while the  jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical court be suspend it have be say  notwithstanding article of the peace have be exhibit and surety give by the  husband it do not follow that a wife be justify in live separate from her  husband but it be a excuse at least for keep from he for some time till their  passion may be suppose to subside and they have a prospect from the  interposition of friend to live happy together and this in the present case  weigh with I in direct for the time pass a sum of money to be pay her but I  will not order it as arrear but in a gross sum for as the husband do by his  answer swear that he be very desirous of cohabit with her and that he have  frequent apply to her to come home I will not direct it for the future but  only that pound shall be pay her be g lib a fol which be a year allowance  accord to the offer in the letter to lady head father for I do not think her  entitle to pound which she pray by her motion because the answer have be put  in above half a year in which he offer S to cohabit with her this be not make  a decree as have be say before the hear but only do what the husband himself  be oblige to do maintain the wife till the cause be hear upon the merit and  what I say now be abstract entire from any decree the court may think proper  to make if there shall not then appear to be a foundation for the agreement  set up by the bill there be instance where notwithstanding a absolute decree  for a separate maintenance yet afterward upon the circumstance of the husband  consent to cohabit with her and promise to use her kind the court have refuse  to continue the separate maintenance