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At trials in York, 17 Luddites were hanged and another 25 transported to Australia, while in Lancaster eight were hanged and 38 sentenced to transportation.
Instead he is sentenced to transportation, though his wife, Sal, and their children are allowed to travel with him.
Six Dorsetshire agricultural labourers the Tolpuddle Martyrs were convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia for swearing a secret oath in connection with the union.
He was sentenced to transportation for life for receiving stolen goods but once tired of lugging rock, ran off into the bush with a few fellow cons.
The labourers, who are now known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, were subsequently arrested for administering "unlawful oaths" and sentenced to transportation but they were pardoned following massive protests by the working classes.
This more intense phase of persecution, later known in Protestant historiography as "the Killing Time", led to dissenters being summarily executed by the dragoons of James Graham, Laird of Claverhouse or sentenced to transportation or death by Sir George Mackenzie, the Lord Advocate.
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He sailed on the Sir William Bensley, the same ship transporting the rioters sentenced to penal transportation.
Of the 19 persons commuted, nine were sentenced to penal transportation.
Fifteen years earlier, he had been falsely convicted and sentenced to penal transportation from London by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who had lusted after Barker's wife Lucy ("The Barber and His Wife").
He had first been put in Newgate for stealing his landlady's bedlinen and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Muir was sentenced to 14 years' transportation to Australia, as were his fellow reformers Skirving, Gerrald and Maurice Margarot, while the Reverend Thomas Fyshe Palmer, a Unitarian minister, was transported for seven years.
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