Short answers, pulled from the story.
Thomas Rymer (c. 1643-1713) was an English poet, literary critic, antiquary, and Historiographer Royal. He is best known for compiling the Foedera, a 17-volume collection of treaties between the English Crown and foreign powers, and for coining the phrase 'poetical justice' in The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd (1678).
The Foedera is a collection of all treaties, leagues, alliances, and capitulations made between the Crown of England and foreign powers, covering the period from 1101 to 1625. Rymer compiled it under a royal warrant issued in 1693, working with documents presented in their original Latin. The 17-volume first edition was published between 1704 and 1717.
Thomas Rymer coined the term 'poetical justice' in The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd, published in 1678. The phrase appeared in his argument about Rollo Duke of Normandy, a play by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman. The term has remained in use in the English language ever since.
Ralph Rymer was arrested on the 13th of October 1663 and executed the following year for his involvement in the Farnley Wood Plot, an intended uprising in Yorkshire against Charles II. Thomas Rymer's elder brother was also arrested and imprisoned, but Thomas himself was not implicated in the plot.
Thomas Rymer died on the 14th of December 1713 and was buried four days later at St Clement Danes' Church in the Strand in London. He appears not to have left any immediate family.
As of 2024, no complete and correct revision of the Foedera has ever been published. Several editions have appeared since Rymer's death, but all suffer from various defects. Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy's three-volume Syllabus, published between 1869 and 1885, is regarded as the most reliable guide to the work.