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

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

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