As early as 1249 the scandals and abuses arising from the unlimited employment of scriveners and familiars who oppressed the people with their extortions called forth the indignant rebuke of Innocent IV.
The function of the notary was no light one, and occasionally scriveners were called in to his assistance, but he formally attested every document.
With that, the scriveners denied their trade, alleging that they were secretaries; and the attorneys called themselves solicitors.
We might indeed content ourselves with the bare proof of what they are; for ’tis crime enough that they are scriveners and attorneys.
Her mentioning of thieves made me inquire after the scriveners and notaries.
Prodigious sums are spent in this lawsuit, and more must be borrowed of scriveners and usurers at heavy interest.
Is it not matter of fact, that from the richest tradesman in all the country, I am reduced to beg and borrow from scriveners and usurers that suck the heart, blood, and guts out of me, and what is all this for!
Yet it was with difficulty that the enraptured pleaders present, the scriveners and their attendants, could forbear from open praise.
But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of.
Where there are two or more scriveners in an office, they assist each other in this examination, one reading from the copy, the other holding the original.
Copying law papers being proverbially dry, husky sort of business, my twoscriveners were fain to moisten their mouths very often with Spitzenbergs to be had at the numerous stalls nigh the Custom House and Post Office.
Bonzer for binding their Apprentices by Scrivenersand not at the Hall.
The central entrance is the Gate of Pardon; to the north is the Gate of the Tower, also called the Gate of Hell; to the south is the Gate of the Scriveners or of Judgment.
And, said the other, who was the Scriveners Mistress, and was named Dorothy, and had been the Farmers Daughter, I know but little of mine since it was a year old.
Copying law-papers being proverbially a dry, husky sort of business, my two scriveners were fain to moisten their mouths very often with Spitzenbergs, to be had at the numerous stalls nigh the Custom House and Post Office.
The scriveners pale form appeared to me laid out, among uncaring strangers, in its shivering winding sheet.
This method of fighting the Inquisition would probably have been more frequently adopted but for the risk to which were exposed the notaries and scriveners whose ministrations were essential.
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