We have, in our opening article, made mention of Sir Thomas Gresham, the greatest of our old "merchant-princes," and have now only to notice the three churches in Lombard-street, one of which, St. Mary's Woolnoth, we have shewn in our engraving, and have but to add, that it was built by a pupil of Wren's about 130 years ago. The following entry occurs in the old pamphlet we have before quoted from: "St. Mary's Woolnoth: Mr. Shuite molested and vexed to death, and denied a funeral sermon to be preached by Dr. Holdsworth, as he desired." The church of Allhallows, Lombard-street, partially escaped the Fire, but was not considered, after careful examination, to be secure enough to stand, even when the body of the old church had been coped with "straw and lime." The present building is by Wren, and contains nothing remarkable. The other church, St. Edward the King, is worth a visit, on account of one or two pictures it contains, together with some beautiful modern specimens of stained glass. Externally, we see nothing striking in the building. Birchin-lane was in former times the Holywell-street of London, so far as regarded the sale of second-hand garments. The church of St. Mary's, in Abchurch-lane (that portion on the opposite side of King William-street), is mentioned, as follows, in the old pamphlet: "Mr. Stone plundered, sent prisoner, by sea, to Plymouth, and sequestered." It was built by Wren, contains some excellent carving by Gibbons, and the cupola is painted by the artist who decorated the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Clement's, in Clement's-lane, is another of Wren's churches; and the living appears to have been held by the same Mr. Stone who held that of St. Mary's, Abchurch, at the commencement of the Civil War; for under the name of the last-mentioned church we find the same entry, with the addition that "Mr. Stone was shamefully abused." With Gracechurch-street and Fish-street-hill we close this section of our work. Gracechurch-street, with its conduit, is often mentioned in the old processions. In 1501, when Catherine of Spain entered the city by London-bridge, a pageant was erected in the broadest part of "Grasschurch-street, in the middle of the street, where the water runneth into the channel"--a primitive way of draining the street. In the time of Elizabeth, it was changed from Grasschurch-street to Gracious-street; and Dekker, in describing a royal procession in 1604, says, "it was never worthy of that name (Gracious-street) it carries till this houre." It is a great mustering-ground for omnibuses, especially such as come from the Surrey side of the river.