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MISE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MISE  , an Anglo-

French
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term (from Fr. mettre, to place) signifying a settlement of accounts, disputes, &c., by agreement or arbitration . As an
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English legal term it was applied to the issue in a writ of right; and in
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history to the payment, in return for certain privileges, made by the county palatine of Chester to each new
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earl, and by the Welsh to each new lord of the Marches, or to a prince or king on his entry into the country . In its more general sense of agreement the term is familiar in English history in the " Mise of
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Amiens," in
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January, and that of Lewes, in May of 1264, made between Henry III. and the barons .

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