Roxburghshire - Melrose 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. Melrose Abbey was founded in 1136 by order of King David I and the modern town of Melrose grew up around it. The Abbey was destroyed or badly damaged by the English 3 times - in 1322, 1385, and 1544, but was abandoned to decay after the Scottish Reformation, its last monk dying in 1590. In 1610 part of the Abbey church was repaired and converted to became the parish church of the community, being once again abandoned in 1810 when a new church was built. Today the ruins are maintained by Scottish Heritage with public access. This print, engraved by Thornton, is supplied with the original, accompanying text.