It has been suggested that he was a cousin of Thomas Minot, Archbishop of Dublin 1363-75.
[1] If this is so, he came from a family from the north of England.
Eleven poems are attributed to him, all of which appear uniquely in Cotton MS Galba E IX in the British Library Department of Manuscripts, London.
In them, he celebrates in northern English and with a somewhat ferocious patriotism the victories of Edward III over the Scots and the French.
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