The eleven extant poems attributed to Laurence Minot celebrate a sequence of English victories on the Scottish border and on the continent between 1333, the Battle of Halidon Hill, and the surrender of the French town of Guînes in 1352. They appear to have been written shortly after each event took place, and may have been revised as a group shortly after the last one was composed. Little is known about Minot himself, or his purpose in writing these poems.