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You're aware that the so called tolpuddle martyrs were arrested on a technicality, and convicted under an act passed in 1797, following serious mutinies and aimed at repressing revoluyionary associations so as to avoid the atrocities like those that had happened in France... not only did it happen long after middle ages but the very law invoked was a very recent one.

and the second part is false and nonsensical.