scrivenership

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.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

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.

The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859