History of 10 Downing Street
The official GOV.UK history of 10 Downing Street, from the site's early history to the twentieth century.
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- GOV.UK: History of 10 Downing Street
Downing served the Commonwealth as a diplomat at The Hague, traded secrets for a royal pardon in March 1660 and a knighthood by the Restoration, and built 15 to 20 cheaply built terraced houses on boggy ground between 1682 and 1684.
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The essay links it for Downing's pardon and knighthood. It also supports the essay's later statement about cheap houses on poor ground, which the essay attributes to Jack Brown's post.
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