Money Scrivener

The most literary conversation that I ever enjoyed, was at the table of Jack Ellis, a money-scrivener behind the Royal Exchange, with whom I at one period used to dine generally once a week [55]. ' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

Yet was his avarice not of the kind practised by old Audley, the money-scrivener of the Commonwealth's time; or Hopkins, the wretch that saved candles 'ends and yet had a thousand wax-lights blazing at his ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)

He lost another like sum by mismanagement, and for want of good advice, says Phillips, or according to his granddaughter's statement, by the dishonesty of a money-scrivener. ❋ Mark Pattison (1848)

The most literary conversation that I ever enjoyed, was at the table of Jack Ellis, a money-scrivener behind the Royal Exchange, with whom I at one period used to dine generally once a week. ' ❋ James Boswell (1767)

He was the son of John Milton a money-scrivener, and born the 9th of December, 1608. ❋ Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 (1753)

Milton a money-scrivener, and born the 9th of December, 1608. ❋ Theophilus Cibber (1730)

The new lights, as they were termed, had begun to set England in a blaze, and two of their burning torches were greeted in Ribblesdale in the persons of Morgan and Davies, the latter the village-schoolmaster, the former a low-minded money-scrivener, who had amassed a large fortune in "the godly city of Gloucester"; and retired to spend it in his native town, where he purchased an estate, acted as justice of the peace, and styled himself gentleman. ❋ Jane West (1805)

The most literary conversation that I ever enjoyed, was at the table of Jack Ellis, a money-scrivener behind the Royal Exchange, with whom I at one period used to dine generally once a week.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

In his desperation he ran at last to the house of a noted money-scrivener, a great acquaintance of the family, and in his whose hands his father frequently reposed his ready cash: to this man he communicates his distress, and easily prevails with him to let him have fifty pounds, on giving him a note to pay him an hundred for it when he should come of age, his father having said he would then make ❋ Eliza Fowler Haywood (1724)