Laurence Minot (1300? – 1352?) was an English poet. Nothing definite is known of him. It has been suggested that he was a cousin of
Thomas Minot,
Archbishop of Dublin 1363-75.
[Ball. F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.i p.81] If this is so, he came from a family from the north of England. He may have been a soldier. Eleven poems are attributed to him, all of which appear uniquely in London: British Library, MS Galba E. ix. 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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External links
*Laurence Minot, Joseph Hall (editor)
''The Poems of Minot'' Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1914.
*Laurence Minot, Richard H. Osberg (editor)
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.
*''Medium Ævum'
on-line entry on Minotby Joanna Bellis.
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1300 births
1352 deaths
14th-century English poets
English male poets
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