Dumfries-shire - Lincluden Abbey. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Lincluden Abbey stands on the bans of Cluden Water in the Royal Burgh of Dumfries. It was first founded as a Benedictine Nunnery around 1160 by Uchtred, the ruler of Galloway. The nuns were, however, expelled for licentious behaviour in the late 14th century, and the site was refounded in 1389 as a new Collegiate Church, under a Provost and 12 canons. After the Scottish Reformation the site was abandoned by 1600, and fell into decay. The ruins are today maintained by Historic Scotland, with public access. This print was engraved by Thornton.