Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scriveners n.

In phrases

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

to get drunk.

1635		T. Heywood The drunkard 60: No man must call a Good-fellow Drunkard [...] But if at any time they spy that defect one in another, they may without any forfeit or iust exceptions taken, say [...] He hath been at the Scriveners and learn'd to make Indentures.
1650		Eighth Liberal Science n.p.: [as 1635].