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worked in it. Corbiere was paid through such sinecures as his
appointment as naval officer at Jamaica, though he never stirred from
England, and as Commissioner of Wines Licenses, which sounds like the
cushiest of posts. He rose to Under Secretary of the Post Office but
continued his cryptanalytic work, which ended after 24 years only with
his death in 1743, when he was receiving £800. The other cryptanalysts
at various times were James Rivers, Frederick Ashfield, John Lampe,
f George Neubourg, John Bode, Jr., one Scholing, and a
Boelstring.
These men received their foreign interceptions from the
:' Secret Office and their domestic ones from the Private - Office, both
subdivisions of the Post Office. The Secret Office was quartered in three
rooms adjoining the Foreign Office and entered privately from Abchurch
Lane. Fire and candles burned constantly in one room; the staff lodged in
the others. It included men who made their life's work the specialty of
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