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His wife was mistress by his death-bed, and she could put the words she chose into the mouth of a dead man - and could move the dead hand at her will.
And when he now merely signs his name, it is "John Knox, with my dead hand and glad heart."
This was an act to prevent the further accumulation of landed property in the dead hand of religious persons and communities.
