Short answers, pulled from the story.
Thomas Rymer was born at Appleton Wiske near Northallerton in the North Riding of Yorkshire around 1643. He studied for eight years under Thomas Smelt at Northallerton Grammar School before matriculating at Sidney Sussex College on the 29th of April 1659.
Thomas Rymer published The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd in 1678 which introduced the term poetical justice. He also wrote the verse tragedy Edgar or the English Monarch licensed on the 13th of September 1677 and contributed Penelope to Ulysses in Dryden's Ovid's Epistles Translated by Several Hands.
Thomas Rymer received appointment as Historiographer Royal following the death of Thomas Shadwell in 1692. This office provided a yearly salary of £200 for his services and authorized him to collate treaties between England and foreign powers starting from 1693.
Printing of volume fifteen finished on the 25th of August 1713 approximately four months before Thomas Rymer died. His work covered documents dating back to May 1101 up to July 1586 across volumes one through fifteen.
George Holmes revised the first seventeen volumes into a second edition published from 1727 to 1735 while John Neaulme edited a third Hague edition released between 1737 and 1745. Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy later provided English summaries in a Syllabus published between 1869 and 1885.