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Scrivener
A
scrivener
(or
scribe
) was a person who could
read and write
or wrote letters to court and legal documents. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. This usually indicated
secretarial
and
administrative
duties such as
dictation
and keeping
business
,
judicial
, and
history
records for
king
s,
nobles
,
temples
, and
cities
. Scriveners later developed into
public servants
,
accountants
,
lawyers
and petition writers.
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