Map showing the arrest and transportation to Australia and Tasmania of the Tolpuddle Labourers, 1834. 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.