Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a scrivener.
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Oxfordshire, detached from his Roman Catholic kindred there, and setting up in London in the business of scrivenership, with music for his private taste, and a name of some distinction already among the musicians and composers of the time.
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Nearly fifty years ago, in the last years of Elizabeth's reign, we saw him, an “ingeniose man "from Oxfordshire, detached from his Roman Catholic kindred there, and setting up in London in the business of scrivenership, with music for his private taste, and a name of some distinction already among the musicians and composers of the time.
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