Thomas Minot

Thomas Minot, also spelt Mynot or Mynyot (died 10 July 1375) was an English-born judge and cleric in fourteenth-century Ireland.

[1] He also served as Chief Escheator of Ireland in the late 1350s, and numerous entries in the Close Rolls for 1358 show that he was kept busy dealing with a flood of queries about the state of the Crown lands.

[5] Sweetman replied at length, insisting on the right of the See of Armagh to primacy, and also complaining that Minot had failed to attend a meeting which had been arranged to discuss the matter.

His arguments apparently convinced the King, since in October 1365 Minot was summoned by the Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to answer a charge of contempt of Parliament in failing to attend the meeting with Sweetman.

[4] In 1372 through what was described as "obtuse bureaucratic mismanagement" on the part of the English Exchequer, he was fined for non-payment of debts he did not owe, but he subsequently received a royal pardon in the matter.

[3] In 1373 he was asked to advise Sir William de Windsor, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the imposition of customs and other taxes.