Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scriveners n.

In phrases

go to the scriveners (and learn to make indentures) (v.)

to get drunk.

1650

Eighth Liberal Science n.p.: No man must call a Good-fellow Drunkard [...] But if at any time they spie that defect in another, they may without any forfeit or just exceptions taken, say, [...] He hath been at the Scriveners and learned to make Indentures.