Facsimile of free pardon granted to George Loveless, one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of 19th-century Dorset agricultural labourers who were arrested for and convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers, they were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia and Tasmania. From The Martyrs of Tolpuddle, published 1934. From The Martyrs of Tolpuddle, published 1934.

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