The Prolific Forger
Booths Farm - Booth rented the farm from about 1800 until 1812. The top floor of the house was turned into a workshop where made the forgeries of coins and banknotes.
The plate was found in a ploughed field on Booths Farm in 1865 by Mrs Clarke’s husband’s grandfather, who was the tenant farmer then. At least two other plates are also known to have been found on the farm in the nineteenth century.
Interestingly, at Booths trial at Stafford one of his employees testified that Booth had ordered him to bury one copper plate (wrapped in paper) a fortnight before he was arrested and three more plates six days before the arrest.
