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Show "Witnew My Hand." , In the early days only a few scholars, priests and clerks knew how to write. It was then customary to sign a document docu-ment by smearing the hand with ink and impressing it upon the paper, accompanied ac-companied by the words: "Witness my hand." - Afterwards the seal was introduced intro-duced as a substitute for the hand mark and was used with the words above quoted, the two forming the signature. This is the origin of the expression as used in modern documents. |