ludimagister

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now the primary schools were represented in the times whereof we write by the parish schoolmaster, the familiar "ludimagister" of the canons and act-books, and by the incumbent himself. For the people at large the press was represented almost entirely by the licenced preacher, and, in the larger towns, the licenced lecturer.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects