ignifies a tax or tallage, &c. An honorary gift, or customary present from the people of Wales to every new king or prince of Wales, anciently given in cattle, wine, and corn, but now in money, being 500l. or more, is denominated a mise; so was the usual tribute or fine of 300 merks paid by the inhabitants of the county palatine of Chester at the change of every owner of the said earldoms, for enjoying their liberties. And at Chester they have a mise-book, wherein every town and village in the county is rated what to pay towards the mise. The 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. ordains that lords shall have all such mises and profits of their lands as they had in times past, &c.

Mise, is sometimes also corruptly used for meafe, in law French mees, "a meffuage;" as a mise place, in some manors, is such a meffuage or tenement as answers the lord a heriot at the death of its owner. 2 Inst. 528.