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]. '

Life of Johnson 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

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... 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.

Milton 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 [55]. '

Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

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. '

Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767

He was the son of John Milton a money-scrivener, and born the 9th of December, 1608.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Milton a money-scrivener, and born the 9th of December, 1608.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II 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.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel 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.’

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 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

Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura Eliza Fowler Haywood 1724