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As bailiff of Grimsby, Misen was responsible for holding the local elections to the first Parliament of 1390, being returned himself by the electors; and as mayor he witnessed a conveyance of land in the town. He evidently owned at least one ship, which he claimed in the early 1390s had been attacked off Flamborough Head by a foreign sea captain named William Flering, although the latter was able to produce an alibi. Misen died in possession of the larger of the borough’s two silver maces, which the authorities acquired from his executors for 23s.4d.1C219/9/7; CAD, i. C104; E. Gillett, Grimsby, 5, 45. Gillett states that Misen was dead by 1394-5, but he clearly lived at least one year longer to become mayor.