Rhymer, Thomas the, or True Thomas, Thomas of Ercildoune, or Earlston, a Berwickshire notability of the 13th century, famous for his rhyming prophecies, who was said, in return for his prophetic gift, to have sold himself to the fairies.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rhyl * Rhys, John