Six Penny Receivers' Office

Six Penny Receivers' Office
   On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
   Sixpence a month paid in by all seamen for the benefit of Greenwich Hospital.
   Not named in the maps.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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