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blake-268	Ripley, Wayne C.	James Blake of Rotherhithe, Timber Merchant	2020		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	1063	34	57	identity of William Blake’s paternal grandfather, James Blake I,As this formulation suggests, I refer in this note to Blake’s grandfather as James Blake I and his father as James Blake II. rests on two documents associated with Blake’s father: first, James Blake II’s apprenticeship indenture with the linen draper Francis Smith, where James Blake I is identified as “James Blake of Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey Gentleman,”G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. James Blake of Ratcliff had a son and a grandson named James (like Blake’s father and brother), a wife named Elizabeth (like Blake’s paternal grandmother and the middle name of his sister), a brother named John (like Blake’s brothers—one of whom died before the other was born),Bentley’s claim that James Blake II had a brother named John is not supported by any documentary evidence.	cache/blake-268.htm	txt/blake-268.txt